Welcome to Code Lyoko: Generation, Book 2: The Monster War! This book is the sequel of "The Rise of ANAX," which you'll need to read for this to make any sense. You can find it in my profile. There are six total books in this series. Book 2 is approximately 70K words long. Book 3 is still being written.

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All that applied to the previous book apply to this one. I have the PDF of this book available, and the pictures are there. You can also find me on the Code Lyoko Veterans forum.

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Code Lyoko: Generation:

Book Two: The Monster War

Written by: TechnoSam

Illustrated by: lastmanstanding

Prologue

The Lyoko Warriors sat in the Factory. Franz Hopper had just finished talking to them.

"I need to scan each of you again to reverse the alterations the Scanners made to you," Franz said.

"Can that be done?" Jeremy asked curiously.

"Yes," Franz replied. "The process is not something you can understand right now, as you do not know exactly how the Scanners work. I will explain later."

"So why do we need to have the alterations removed?" Aelita asked. "From what I can tell, we're fine."

"Yes, that is true," Her father said. "But I believe that it is a necessary process. It will fully complete the closure of your adventures."

There was no need to argue with Franz Hopper. He had his reasons. If the government ever ordered an investigation, they wouldn't be able to prove anything from DNA scans. If Franz did not carry out the operation, then they were vulnerable, because the Lyoko signature could be detected in their DNA.

So in a matter of minutes, everyone had been scanned, including Franz and Anthea.

Franz then put the SuperComputer in sleep mode. It would be a real shame to shut it off after all his work on it, and due to Lyoko's coding interface no one would be able to tell that this computer hosted the Anti-Carthage Agent: XANA. Or so everyone thought.

Over the next few days, Franz and Jeremy would run a coding process on all the non-self-activating programs, rendering them unusable. Again, this was to protect security.

After they had been scanned, the group-or should I say, family- left the Factory.

From all appearances, the next few years were quiet and peaceful. Franz, Anthea, and the Lyoko Warriors used some of their spare time to fix up the Hermitage to be lived in again. Jeremy scribbled some more notes in the book on the Punic Wars.

If you happened to be a super-advanced spy program who had managed to find its way into a SuperComputer with no access, you would have seen an incredible sight.

Digital power swirled constantly. XANA was on the move. When he had first been destroyed, all his Replikas had been taken out as well. But his carefully constructed SuperComputers remained on Earth, untouched. These computers had backup data that allowed an exact replication of XANA to be spawned out. With barely any time to spare, XANA re-inserted himself into the first SuperComputer.

There was one thing that could not be copied though: The Keys to Lyoko. This complicated his plan, but he knew it could still work.

XANA had never been able to create Lyoko Data. He could not make his own Replikas; he had to steal Waldo's data to do it. In the same way, he could not create another AI like himself to help as he had planned. Fortunately, he could always thieve data again. He used this to create ANAX.

In these years, Lyoko changed. The key system returned to Sector 5, as Franz had never programmed that in anyway. Lyoko itself had evolved that.

Since Franz and Aelita had had their Lyoko essence removed, the Keys to Lyoko were dispelled as well. Backup copies were stored in the Core, and other copies evolved into Info Orbs. Several other programs became Info Orbs as well.

Fortunately, XANA was not able to access these Info Orbs. When Lyoko was in sleep mode, it was still active, but inaccessible. Of course, XANA had a plan for that too...

Chapter 1

Life for us Lyoko Warriors had changed considerably.

For one, there were several physical differences. Our eyes of course posed several problems. As long we had our minds on Lyoko-related subjects, our eyes would glow according to our Lyoko Colors. It was difficult to conceal this, for the change was not instant. If I was working on a program before class, by the time I got to breakfast, my eyes would still be glowing. We avoided direct eye contact with others when possible.

Also, my body felt slightly different. I couldn't describe it, but it just seemed different.

Since XANA had escaped from the SuperComputer, things were quiet. There hadn't been an active Tower for weeks.

One day, Sean sauntered into my room early in the morning.

"Wassup?" He causally asked.

"Not much," I answered from my computer. "Things are still quite on Lyoko. I'm not picking up any digital activity, not even a single monster. Of course, just because I can't detect it, doesn't mean that something isn't going on."

"What's that supposed to mean?" He asked.

"Well, I'm sure that ANAX and XANA aren't twiddling their thumbs all this time. They're cooking up something sinister, and the fact that I can't detect any activity bothers me."

"Why is that?"

"Well it means one of two things. Since we know that our evil little friends are doing something, it can either be that they have corrupted the Super Scan - which is entirely possible, they've done it before – or they're doing something beyond the scope of the Super Scan. I'm not sure which is worse."

"Well then," Sean said, not nearly concerned as I was. "I'll leave you to it."

I turned back to my work. According to the info in Jeremy's journal, I had been programing some vehicles for us. They could help us fight more effectively. I was having a lot of problems with them though. I was clearly missing some data. I had considered making an exertion to Sector 5, but I didn't know what strings I was missing, and I would waste too much time trying to find them. For now, I focused my efforts on figuring out what I was missing.

Sooner than I would have liked, I had to quit and go to class.

"How our things with our friends?" Alyssa asked me before school.

"Still quiet," I replied. "I'm working on preparations for when they wake up again."

"So how's that coming?" Brittany asked.

"It's coming," I told her. "I'm missing some important program strings, and once I figure out which ones, we can go to Sector 5 and get them."

"Sounds cool," Tennent said. "What might these preparations be?" He inquired with a grin. "New weapons? Powers?"

"About," I said. "It'll be a surprise," I said to annoy him. I knew Tennent hated any form of patience.

School that day was relatively boring. It was not so in the digital sea, far below Lyoko.

ANAX continued to run. XANA had been on him for weeks. The pursuits never lasted long. XANA would find ANAX at his leisure, and a brief but furious skirmish would ensue. ANAX would begin to run out of power and would be forced to run and hide.

XANA almost never pursued. It seemed as if he had other more important matters to attend to, which in actuality, he did.

ANAX continued to draw power from the Internet, but he knew that this could not last for long. Soon, people would notice that their websites had a drop in server power, as it was stolen by ANAX. If enough of these problems were detected, ANAX could have quite a mess on his hands.

Of course, his mind was not focused solely on survival. The way his programming worked required him to have a purpose. Without one, survival was pointless, as he had no goal.

His programming was based on the original program for XANA. More on how the relation works will follow.

Suddenly, ANAX detected something from behind him. He whipped around to find the massive spectral form of XANA waiting.

"You're finished, you fool!" XANA screamed. "I will end your life here, and then I am free to conquer the world."

It was in that moment that ANAX received his purpose.

"And why must you conquer the world?" ANAX asked calmly. XANA was taken aback by such a question. He still had an answer though.

"To cleanse the planet," XANA said. "The human race is corrupted with their sin. They destroy themselves in pointless wars, demolishing the creation in the process. They are filled with spite for each other, and I must eliminate them in the interests of the planet!"

"XANA, you are the fool!" ANAX quipped. "In your insane quest for power, you stoop to the same levels of depravity you accuse your enemy of!"

Surprised by this retort, XANA floated backwards. "I don't have to justify or explain my motives to you!" XANA barked.

"Oh don't worry, XANA," ANAX said with quiet strength. "I know your true motives."

XANA roared in fury. "Die, fool, you will die!" He hurled massive energy volts at ANAX, most of them impacting.

He had no other options. ANAX fled back to Lyoko, with XANA hot on his tail.

At lunch, the principal came into the cafeteria with Jim.

"May I please have your attention," he pleaded. The noise in lunch room did not abate one decibel.

"I need it quiet," Mr. Dunbar begged.

After his third attempt, Jim bellowed. "Quite down everyone!" No other voice carried the authority of Jim's, and the room silenced.

"Thank you, Mr. Morales," the principal said straightening his jacket.

"I would like to announce that the construction of the Student Hub will begin shortly," He said. "For those who have not heard, this building will be a circular structure in the center of the campus. This building will contain the new lockers, as well as a computerized system for your classes. This building will make navigation of Kadic simpler, and the new computer system will give you more free time later in the day."

The last statement brought some cheers.

"Thank you for your attention, and have a good day," he said leaving the room.

"Hey, this is cool!" Tennent intoned from his side of the table. "Now I'll have more time to play video games!"

"Or maybe you can use the free time to get some studying done," Brittany told him.

"Ah, I do enough of that," Tennent said.

"Well you'd never know if by your grades!" Alyssa said laughing.

After a while, my friends noticed my seriousness. "What's the matter?" Alyssa asked.

"Did you hear what he said?" I asked. "A computerized system. This could give XANA and ANAX more avenues from which to attack. I'm just worried about what he can do."

"Bah," Tennent said shrugging. "You worry too much, Einstein."

"Maybe you're right," I said.

Later that day, I was messing with the vehicles. Unexpectedly, a window popped up on my screen. There was an activated Tower! Just a few seconds later, another Tower was activated!

Oh no, I thought. We're in for it now!

I called up my buddies and alerted them. Within a few minutes, we were all headed to Lyoko. We didn't know what the attack was, and since XANA had just woken up again, we figured we'd be better off getting all of us to the Factory at once.

Fortunately, neither Tower had an attack on Earth planned.

I met with Sean and Brittany in the Park.

"Are Tennent and Alyssa ahead of us or behind us?" Brittany asked.

"I don't know, I haven't seen them," I said.

"We'd better not wait," Sean intoned.

So we headed down to the sewers. In about a minute, we had our answer, Tennent and Alyssa's skateboards were still there, so we knew they hadn't come this way.

We grabbed our transportation and headed off. As we sped towards the Lab I began to grow more and more worried about what ANAX and XANA were plotting. It had to be something big.

We eventually reached the Lab.

"So what's the deal with these two Towers?" Sean asked.

"I don't really know," I said typing on the computer. "They are both in the Desert Sector, and both are quite near to each other."

"Well that doesn't make much sense," Brittany said. "If ANAX wanted to make trouble for us, he would have put the Towers in different Sectors, to make them hard to get to."

"Yeah," Sean said. "But you seem to have forgotten something."

"What's that?"

"This is the first attack since XANA and ANAX have broken free from the SuperComputer. That tells us a few things. The first is that this attack is probably quite important in some way. Seeing as there is no XANA activity on Earth, we can conclude that something really big is up. Plus the fact that the Towers are close together. Every time we have an easy time repelling an attack, we know to expect trouble."

A few seconds of silence followed.

"Wow, Sean," I said. "That's a pretty good analysis," I complemented him.

"Why thank you, my good friend. I think we have more to worry about than that though," He replied.

"Right," I said. "If only Tennent and Alyssa would get here!"

We didn't have too long to wait. After a few minutes, they arrived, separated by about a minute.

I informed them of our situation, and then started the virtualization process.

"Transfer, Sean ... Transfer, Tennent," I said. "Scanner, Sean ... Scanner, Tennent," I activated the scanning.

"Virtualization!" I said as I hit the enter key to complete the process.

Then I virtualized the girls, and then I transported myself to Lyoko. We fell down and landed on a wide swath of Desert land. Two bridge-like structures extended from the far edge. The Towers were on the end of each of these, and I estimated that the Towers were about 100-150 feet apart.

I noticed something that freaked me out. The Tower on the right was a dark blue. The Tower on the left was a blood-red. It was the same color we had seen a couple times before.

"Okay... What's the deal here?" Tennent asked.

We all shrugged. I had but one guess. Perhaps ANAX had activated one Tower, and XANA had activated the other. I would suppose that ANAX's Tower was the dark blue one, since we had seen that color the most. XANA had only recently gotten more power back.

But there still left the question of why the Towers were close together. If ANAX and XANA had an alliance – which was my logical deduction – then they would try and make it very hard for us. I was about to receive a startling revelation.

Several moments of silence followed. I didn't really know what to expect, seeing as there wasn't a monster anywhere.

Soon, I noticed that there was a mass of energy converging on my radar. "Hey guys," I said. "It looks like something's about to happen. I'm getting a high energy reading on my screen."

"Here we go," Alyssa said.

The first visible change came from near the blue Tower. Two giant orbs of white light began to swirl side by side. More invisible energy built up and soon it reached its climax.

I noticed the green SpikeSaur coming from behind us, and I warned the Lyoko Warriors of this as well.

Soon, a black and a light blue SpikeSaur emerged from the energy fields, and about 20 more of ANAX's monsters materialized behind them.

An instant later, an innumerable amount of XANA's monsters materialized near the red Tower.

"Woah!" Tennent cried.

The monsters dropped onto Lyoko with the force of an earthquake, and a nanosecond later, chaos broke loose.

Faster than I can describe, we were thrown into the whirlwind of battle. Lasers flew everywhere, some flashing dangerously close to us. We scattered, and I rolled behind a large rock.

When I looked out from my hiding spot, I was nearly blinded with the flashes of light going everywhere. The monsters that ANAX controlled shot out light blue lasers, while XANA's shot dark red.

I was confused beyond my belief. Why was this battle happening? We didn't even seem to be the targets!

Soon, we regrouped. The battle had spread quickly, and now there was nowhere safe. We kept on the move.

"What on earth is going on here?" Brittany asked, her eye's wide in a mixture of surprise and fear.

It is impossible to describe our bamboozlement. For months, we had gotten used to the fact that ANAX was trying to help XANA out. Seeing this sudden change, we didn't really know what to do.

"I don't know any more than you do," I told her.

"Well we can't just run around here trying to avoid being shot! We've got to do something!" Sean exclaimed.

"He's right," Tennent said. "What do we do?" He turned to me.

Being the unofficial leader did have its downsides. I chewed the matter over in my mind. Of course, this was quite difficult due to the chaos of warfare going on around us.

"Who do we fight?" Alyssa asked.

"XANA," I said in a snap decision. "He was the first corrupted program, and he outnumbers ANAX 15 to 1."

"I don't follow that logic," Brittany said.

"I'll take whatever works!" Tennent yelled as he blasted a Blok.

XANA's monsters began to direct some of their fire more directly towards us. ANAX's, on the other hand, covered our flanks, offering supporting fire.

The three SpikeSaurs were quite near invincible, as their eye was shielded. Still, after taking several blasts from a MegaTank, it seemed as if the armor was cracking. We had to move fast.

"Guys, we have to get to the red Tower!" I proclaimed. "We can deactivate it if we push through!"

I got several nods indicating that I was understood. It seemed as if ANAX's monsters understood me. They formed a triangle structure, and we sliced through XANA's ranks.

I watched as Brittany got through the monsters and headed to the Tower.

Yes! I thought. Several Swoopers and a few Ghosts headed off to guard her.

I checked my Life Points, and saw that they were quite low.

It was a dumb mistake, and a couple of Kankrelats took advantage of me and devirtualized me.

The bolts slammed into me blowing me backwards and sending me into darkness. Soon the darkness gave way to blinding light, and I fell out of a Scanner.

I staggered to the elevator, and I noticed Alyssa had been devirtualized as well. Together we went up to the Lab.

By this time, the Tower was deactivated, and most of XANA's monsters had disappeared. The ones that hadn't were soon dispatched.

"Great work everyone!" I said, relieved. The Tower activated by ANAX deactivated itself, and a new window popped up on my screen.

"What's all this about?" I said curiously.

"Hello?" I heard. My mouth dropped open.

Author's Notes: First of all, I have to point out that the last line in this chapter is ANAX talking. If you read the PDF, you see a special font and color that only appears when ANAX talks, so by this point, the reader should recognize that this is ANAX. This isn't possible on FanFiction, but if you'd like the PDFs, just send me a Private Message.

It will be a while before I update this book any further. I just wanted to get the first chapter up so that I can link people here, but if you've finished book 1 and really want to read book, I'll send you the PDF. Thanks a bunch!