When the Towers Wake | Code Lyoko FanFiction | Project Carthage

Aelita

Jeremie and I analyse the new violet tower signal.

Jeremy is disturbed:

"This isn't an attack. It's a message."

I zoom in on the data layers-there's a fragment of Elias's code.

She's trying to rewrite the system." I said.

Lyra

I was standing in the tower I just activated.

My father's voice was layered in code.

Echoes of his early work on XANA and the purpose they once had.

A vision of a world not ruled by war or control-but by balance between digital and human life.

I saw XANA appear beside me.

"You want peace. But peace requires strength," he said.

I looked at him.

"Then I'll become stronger than both of you," I said.

Yumi

"Jeremy, Lyra can be saved," I said, and I saw Urlich disagree with me.

"She's building her own army. That tower-it's a declaration." Urlich said.

Odd sighed, and I looked at him.

"Odd?"

"Yumi is right," he said.

"What?" William said.

"She looked scared. Not evil." Odd said.

"She doesn't know what she is." Odd continued.

Lyra

My Dad and I meet in a space between sectors.

He offers me a plan:

Reactivate a lost sector-"The Core of Origins", a hidden space containing abandoned programs from Lyoko's first prototypes.

Together, we could rewrite the very architecture of the system.

I agree... on one condition:

"No more hidden truths. I want to know everything."

XANA

I watched Lyra and Elias from a distance.

My expression is unreadable-then my hand clenches.

I speak aloud, voice glitching:

"She wasn't meant to lead. She was meant to follow me."

Lyra

"You're being manipulated. First XANA. Now Elias. You think you're choosing for yourself, but they're just letting you think that." Aelita said.

"And you think you're free just because you're fighting him?" I asked.

I stand before an ancient, spiralling tower unlike any other.

With my Dad's help, I opened it. Violet light pulses across Lyoko.

Jeremy

Alarms scream. I gasped:

"Jeremy? What's going on?" William asked.

"She's changing Lyoko's source code," I said.

Screen fades to black with one chilling message:

"SYSTEM REWRITING. PRIMARY CONTROL: L.D."

"Oh no..." I said.