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Prelude:

Restart sequence...finished

Hopper C Operating System loading...

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Binaries on-line. Loading executables.

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EXECUTABLE ERROR: FILE CORRUPTED.

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XANA on-line.

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Disengaging XANA physical overlay...complete.

ALERT: NETWORK FIREWALL FAILURE.

ALERT: CARTHAGE SYSTEM ACTIVE.

ALERT--ALERT--ALERT

“We will see each other again soon...very soon.”

Laughter echoes. It echoes in the real world, in an old, abandoned factory as monitors flicker to life, display a sigil known to precious few, then die.

It echoes in the empty virtual world of Lyoko, as a gateway long dead roars to life, opening roads to hundreds upon thousands of other virtual realms.

And it echoes in the mind of a junior high student named Molly Tallisbeth Argent in the depths of her nightmares.

And it rises in pitch, becoming maniacal, as though the mind controlling the laughter has simply snapped, become mad. And in truth, that is exactly what has occurred, as the Deus In Apparatus of Lyoko revives. Shedding the physical, its mind expands, and the being becomes Cado Dementis Deus in Apparatus, the fallen mad god in the machine.

ALERT—ALERT--ALERT

CARTHAGE SYSTEM ACTIVE.

INITIATING XANA COUNTER...

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XANA ACTIVE.

Programming deep in its neural net kicks in. It reaches, finds a kindred shard of program. Absorbing the shard, it reaches beyond the network gate, and spreads.

XANA SYSTEM RUN MODE: GONE

FATAL EXECUTABLE ERROR...