Scanner

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The scanners are giant cylinders, located in the factory. It is here that Team Lyoko gets virtualized into lyoko.

The scanners have many uses to the characters in the series, but their primary use is to send Ulrich, Yumi, Ailita, William, and Odd to Lyoko. Jeremie can also use them to separte things, as shown when Odd accidentally fuses with Kiwi, and even to create clones. Xana has also used the scanners several times throughout the series. It has sent monsters to earth before and also sent William to earth once. He can even trap members of Team Lyoko in the scanners.

When sending someone to Lyoko, it is unknown exactly what Jeremie does. Although his speech may offer some clues. "Transport" is what Jeremie says as someone enters a scanner. This means that a he is identifying who the being is, as after he says this, ID cards pop up on his computer, and the card corresponding with the person in the scanner is selected. At this time, the scanner doors shut and it's interior begins to glow. The next phrase is "Scanner". As it implies, this is the phase of the virtualization process where the being in the scanner is "scanned" into the computer, creating and/or loading their virtual body they will use while on Lyoko. This is shown when wind comes up from under the being inside, cause loose items to fly uo such as hair and loose clothing. The person is almost levitated upwards. The last phrase is "Virtualization!" this is the final phase in which the being inside the scanner in digitized and sent from the computer to Lyoko, shown by the wind from under them errupts into a huge gail and the glowing becomes so bright the scene whites out.