Code Lyoko: Revolutions and Evolutions

Chapter 18

As lunchtime approached, Aelita was thinking more on what the voice of her dreams and now softly speaking in her head had told her and shown her in terms of how to better many of the problems Aelita had come to see as the problems of the world. Aelita greatly loved the aspects of what she had been shown in her dream, the discussion she had with the voice and it was if anything, soothing to hear that there was a voice that not only could reciprocate her thoughts but also intelligently debate with her.

Throughout the course of her dream, she had asked the voice many questions of just how the voice's vision for a new order was to come about while not running into the same pitfalls as many others had in trying to establish true order, unity, and peace to a land. The voice was calm, and the voice was patient as it explained that much of the elements that it had in mind for the world were all based on the simple premise of choice for the people that would be impacted. In a unique way, the voice prioritized need over wants of the people as it realized often what people wanted wasn't all the time what they needed, and the opposite was true in that what they needed they did not often want. However, it wasn't so much that people didn't want it as opposed; they didn't want the birthing pains, so to speak that went along with progress and betterment of society and indeed themselves.

Aelita asked further what the voice meant and it explained, "Simply put, you have countless regimes that rise and fall, the new regime in time becomes corrupt as it tasted the sweet nectar of power that the former regime had in , own holding of the reigns so to speak. The new order that rises as much as it needed the people to be its army, the reality was that those who sought the utmost position for themselves wished to have no voice that could contradict them. The people were but a means to an end, that is all."

Aelita then asked, "What keeps you from becoming as much a tyrant as those who came before?"

The voice replied, "I have a team, much as you do to help ground me. No man or woman can guide groups of people all by themselves. They need hands with which to reach, the second set of eyes with which to see and perhaps catch what the first set of eyes cannot. To guide others and, in time, govern others through sheer will alone is an impossible thing. You had Josef Stalin who aspired to run his nation to the nth degree, but he trusted no one because he desired to trust no one. In the end, how does he die? Choking on his own blood."

"So, your team maintains you?" Aelita asked.

"Correct. They all have the ability to stop me entirely if they so choose, and I have the ability to do the same to them but it is a system of good-faith and deliverance on promises that makes us strong, teaching all of us, even more, the strength of the internal team and co-reliance. These things are known to you because it is what powered you through to defeat XANA"

"And you," Aelita said, "You are the essence in the supercomputer? You are the new force living within it?"

"Correct. I do not wish to destroy you or your team. Merely to extend to you the ability to change the world for the better to influence it in key events and make use of your phenomenal work together to better our shared future."

"Why do you wish to help us?" Aelita asked.

"Because time and time again, we have seen countless individuals never mind groups that were overlooked; their potential completely unrecognized by those who should have paid attention. And those who didn't pay attention were consumed by the very element the overlooked saw coming miles away. It is to give you a chance to be ahead of the curve."

As Aelita reflected on her dream, she was wondering just how to proceed with the aspect of Anthea coming to discuss the second project with the scientific team that her father had worked alongside. As much as she wanted to trust the voice in the supercomputer, she knew inherently the dangers of trusting something a face-value alone.