Code Lyoko: Revolutions and Evolutions

Chapter 36

Jeremy still couldn't believe his eyes as he reviewed the footage for the fourth time. He wanted to be skeptical of its contents, and yet the evidence was overwhelming. The footage had been pulled from a location's raw security feed at the time of the event back in 1994. The footage was by every extent of his analysis unaltered. It was the hard truth, indeed, the most unsettling truth that what was before him was real.

Jeremy replayed a segment of the audio-files, "Now, John, understand that we do truly appreciate what you have done for our vision. You and Waldo have done wonderfully in securing the necessary protocols and making your marvelous machines. But now comes the time where your tools are to be utilized how they were originally designed in conception. But because we cannot have simple people running around proclaiming what is at work—especially when it comes to safeguarding the people; it comes to the element of what to do with you and those like you. For me, such a method has a simple answer, but an immensely gratifying one."

Jeremy paused the feedback, "Safeguarding the people?" he thought, "North-Gate has a similar objective, to safeguard us. But that said, considering what the program has shared with us, what are we being safeguarded from? I know now this being, this Sylvia, is a living being just as Aelita was. But why keep this portion of herself secret?"

As Jeremy thought, the phone began to ring. Jeremy checked the caller ID, and it was Aelita's new number, and he answered, "Hello, how are you."

"Jeremy, did you see what North-Gate sent us?" Aelita asked her voice in shock.

"Yes, I did. I'm glad you sent it to me."

"Is there any way any of this footage could have been falsified?"

"I've looked through the files; I've looked at everything that was given. Aelita, the only thing that has been modified, is a refresh period which continually stored the video and audio-logs. That's the only current thing. The rest is the original video and audio recordings. It's even still in the old coding and video transcription feed from nineteen ninety-four. I had to do a few configurations to even play the videos fully."

"So, so it's all true then?"

"Unfortunately, it seems so. Your mother used both your father and Johnathan Barrow to make two programs in the wake of Carthage. The machines, I'm honestly not sure just how they exactly factor into your mother's plan. But their importance is definitely there."

"With respect, Jeremy, I feel you're looking for an answer which is already in front of you. The answers that we have are in North-Gate's manual. It was meant to be paired with Lyoko. Even though both projects were designed separately, they easily can be linked to each other. I have a strong instinct that North-Gate when the program acquired Lyoko, it was doing its best to achieve its original objective. However, with what happened to its creator, it may have changed its primary goal a bit."

"Fair point. A question I have, though, what are we going to do about your mother? Something tells me that if North-Gate and even Sylvia now knows the full extent of all of this, the program may already be making its move."

"I honestly believe that if the program knows and has known all of this information, then it was just waiting for the right moment to act upon it. What becomes of my mother? In light of this evidence, it will sort itself out in due time."

"Are you feeling alright?" Jeremy asked, "I know how you wanted to reconnect with your mother. Seeing what you've seen, what are your thoughts?"

"My thoughts? I honestly don't give a fuck. She's made her bed, now she must lie in it. She lied to my father, almost would have destroyed him just as she did John Barrow. My father was able to save me and keep me safe from his own program, but more than that, he kept me safe from her. Mother left Sylvia fatherless and locked in a case for a while and killed her father right before her eyes. If John Barrow recorded all of this, then he knew what he was doing. He was having his program protect his daughter, and when the time came, I honestly feel he's given consent for the program to kill my mother. So, yeah, Jeremy, those are my thoughts. Fuck that lying cunt of woman!"