We'd done it for months, countless times with countless risks.
Scanner...
Transfer...
Virtualization.
But this time it was different. XANA's attacks had just halted, no warning, no viruses, I even agree with Odd, XANA would've at least left some malicious text file saying he was going on vacation or something.
These thoughts ran through the mind of Jeremie Belpois as he entered the Lab he considered a second home once more. He'd entered many times, his heart racing and his brain calculating every little detail about his Supercomputer. Today however, he entered lazily alongside Aelita and Odd, walking slowly around the Holomap.
"It just doesn't make sense, no attacks, no Replikas, hell there's not even a Manta in Carthage. XANA's gone dark." He said as the Holomap displayed the results of a Superscan.
"Isn't that a good thing Einstein? If XANA doesn't attack that means he's given up, we can shut down the Supercomputer and go back to normal life." Odd spoke up. Jeremy shook his head and sat in his chair.
"XANA isn't programmed for 'giving up' Odd. Whatever the reason, it means trouble for us." He began typing line after line of code, the computer responded instantly with a blue Eye of Lyoko. "Okay, continuous Superscan active. Backup enabled, network link established. Aelita, can you reroute 20% of power to the security program?"
Aelita nodded. "Of course Jeremie, but, what do you have in mind?"
"If XANA is preparing an attack, I want to put up as many failsafes as possible, by the time we're done here the most he will be able to attack is a speck of virtual dust." He smirked as Aelita began to type on her Laptop.
"I hope you're right Jeremie, we don't need a surprise attack." Aelita said, almost glumly. Jeremie nodded as he finished typing the last few lines of programming:
Omnirun Program 23-5 'Superscann_Mark_5' for '24' hours. Repeat Function.
END OF LINE
Troubleshoot Function 23-18 'Scann_Device_1' 'Scann_Device_2' 'Scann_Device_3' compatibility.
Allow_Entry: 'Lyoko'
Allow_Exit: 'Lyoko' 'require password'
END OF LINE
Monitor Program 'XANA' for '24' hours. Repeat Function.
>ERROR
>Program XANA: Malicious response: 01001101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110100 01101111 01110010 00100000 01100010 01101100 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100101 01100100 00101110 00100000 01000101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01110100 01110011 00101110
Convert 'Binary' to 'English'.
>Monitor Blocked. End attempts.
Monitor Program 'XANA' for '24' hours. Report Energy Spikes. Repeat Function.
END OF LINE
>Will Monitor Program 'XANA'
>Accessing custom data files.
>Accessed.
>Command 'Report Energy Spikes' UNDERSTOOD
>Initiating...
Aelita looked back onto a line of code.
"Did XANA just send that response to us?" She asked.
Jeremy rolled back to the binary code, observing it for a moment for lifting a finger in his usual manner.
"Yes and no, XANA sent the response, but it's a ping-send type program." He explained, Odd raised an eyebrow. "It's like a voicemail. We rung the phone and XANA spammed the ignore key." Jeremie explained.
"Oohhhh! Well couldn't you have said that in the first place?" He asked sarcastically as he leaned on the HoloSphere base. "Anyhow, if we're done here I think it's time we head back."
Jeremie sighed and punched a few more lines of code into the Computer.
Run Programme 'Sign-out-key' set_ password SCIPIO
Require_ password 'Userlogg'
else
log.console(ERROR)
Run_Program 23-5 'Superscann' 'once'
log.console()
END OF LINE
He then stood.
"Yeah, sorry I had to bring you two along, I wanted to be prepared in case XANA decided to attack us in the Factory."
"It's okay, we've all learned to expect such things from XANA." Aelita said as she and Odd followed Jeremie onto the lift.
As they entered the metal crate, Jeremie stepped forward and pressed '2' on the dialpad.
"Jeremie what are you doing?" Aelita looked to him, suddenly jumping as the lift gate sealed shut. The downwards motion that followed almost scared her.
"I want to make sure of something..." The super-genius muttered, his glasses lenses flashing white from the glaring industrial bulb above them. As the lift once again opened, Jeremie ran to the center of the Core-Room. The massive cylinders in the center rose in his presence, a pulsing red Eye of XANA on the top front. He glared into the red circle and spoke sternly.
"Aelita.. plug my laptop into the Core. Connect me to the Monitoring Systems for User-Data. I want to make some adjustments..."
The elf, ever fearful of the flesh and blood of her life prison, hesitantly connected the two computers. As if the devices knew what he wanted, a series of card-like icons appeared onscreen, each with a virtual picture of the team members, all except for one. On the far right side was a single card, which was silver instead of bronze. The picture was of Jeremie, but only in Reality. No Lyoko Copy of his DNA was ever successfully made. Every time had failed but once, and he'd soon deleted that configuration.