Rewrite of my original story. Reviews would appreciated. (And yes, this is still set after the fan made set of episodes 95-99, not including 100, 101, and 102)
Chapter 1; Learning to Trust.
As the sun began rising above the highly acclaimed Kadic Academy, a boy unlike any other could be seen at the entrance gates. He clocked in at average height, and at 14 years of age. He wore simple blue jeans and a light blue T-Shirt, along with red sneakers. But the odd part to him was the blue quills he had coming out of his head and down his back, starting large and growing small.
"Time to see if it all worked…" he muttered to himself quietly in the morning breeze as the automated gates opened up, allowing him to enter the school grounds.
The boy had traveled to many places, but in his eyes, the school still looked nice, aged paint on old walls, nice trees and flowers growing in the courtyard, and the smell of eggs and bacon wafting out of open windows from what he assumed was the cafeteria.
"Here it is" he said to himself, reaching a double door entrance noted on his small map. He opened it and walked into the Secretary's office.
"Who are you?" she asked him, not looking away from the computer she was working at.
"I'm a new student here" the boy said to her. "I was told I would need to meet with the prin-"
"Ahh, there you are" a voice the boy had never heard said. He turned to see the principal. "It's nice to meet you at long last" he said with a smile, extending his arm out to the boy, who shook it.
"Thanks" he replied. "Sorry that my parents couldn't make it" he added, looking down slightly.
"No no, it's all okay" he reassured the boy. "Now then, allow me to show you around and to the room you'll be staying in" he said, leading the boy back out of the building and into the cool autumn morning. "Now then" the principal spoke again as he lead the boy into another large building. "Light's out is at 9:30 P.M and you should be up and ready by 8:00 A.M" he said to him.
"Understood" the boy replied as they came up to a long hallway filled with dorms.
"You'll be staying with Jeremy Belpois" the older man said, walking to said dorm. "He's one of the smartest children here and I believe you can learn a lot from him" he added, knocking on the door.
"Come in!" a half-awake voice called out from inside the room. The man opened the door and began speaking.
"Ahh, good morning Jeremy" he said to him in a normal tone.
"Good morning Mr. Delmas" he said, packing his small bag for the day.
"It is a good morning indeed" he replied. "I would like you to meet your new roommate" he added. This seemed to slightly startle the bespectacled boy. "Jermie" Mr. Delmas began, clearing his throat before continuing on, "I'd like you to meet Keifer" he said as the boy stepped around from behind Delmas, his appearance startling Jeremy"
"Nice to meet you" Keifer said, holding his hand out to Jermie, who in turn, reluctantly shook it.
"It's nice to meet you" he replied. "I'm Jeremy Belpois" he added. "So you new to France?" he asked him as Delmas had went off to find Jim to get Keifer a bed for the room.
"Not really" he replied, leaning against the wall. "I've been here for a while" he said to Jeremy. "So, you into computers?" he asked, motioning to the tech setup the blonde boy had.
"Being into them would be an understatement" he joked. "But yeah, I'm good with them" he said as Jim walked into the room, carrying a box spring in tow and placing it adjacent to Jeremy's own bed on the other side of the door, now making the room look like many other two people rooms.
"I'll bring in everything else later" he said to Keifer. He then looked to Jermie and begun speaking once more. "He has the same schedule as you, so maybe you can show him the ropes of the school" he said to him before leaving. Jermie nodded as Jim left the room.
"I guess I'm into computers too" Keifer said to Jermie as they left the room to head down to breakfast. "But I don't use tech too much" he added as they exited the dorm wing and back out into the morning sun.
"So what do you use them for when you do?" Jermie asked curiously as they walked past onlookers shocked by Keifer's looks.
"Umm… you wouldn't believe me if I told you" Keifer said to him, sounding a little nervous. "But usually I only use mine to listen to tunes" he said quickly in order to try and change the subject.
"Okay then" Jermie said, somewhat just dropping the conversation as they entered the Cafeteria. Jermie showed him what to do as they moved through the line and Keifer thanked him.
"So I guess you've got your own group to go hang out with?" he asks the blonde.
"Yep" he said, motioning to a small group of people at a table towards the middle of the large cafeteria.
"That's cool" Keifer said before walking off to a table in the back. He himself didn't want to intrude upon Jeremy's usual morning. Which is why he chose to do what he did.
"Morning Jeremy" Ulrich said to his long-time friend as he walked over to the table and sat down. "What took you so long?" he asked him quizzically before sipping his orange juice.
"Yeah, you're usually bright and early" Odd pointed out before devouring his fourth muffin.
"I got a new roommate" he deadpanned to the group, which went silent instantly.
"That's not bad, right?" Aelita asked him worriedly.
"Not like he'll bother us" Yumi said, looking over to Keifer for the first time, almost spitting out her water upon seeing him. "What the…" she didn't finish her sentence as she was stunned by his appearance, just as many others had been upon first sight.
"Hey, where's William?" Odd asked to quickly change the subject.
"He got a nasty bug last night, but he said he might be feeling better by tonight" Aelita said.
"Well at least we've got you in case of anything going south" Ulrich said with a slight chuckle before the first bell rung.
"Well, see you after class" Yumi said to them before taking off for her history class.
"And we all, including him have science this morning" Jermie said to them, making note of the fact Keifer had the same schedule as them. Everyone acknowledged the fact and dumped their plates before heading out of the cafeteria.
Mrs. Hertz class dragged on like any other day, except for the fact that no one would stop looking at Keifer's odd features. He had once more decided to sit in the back and despite being stared at constantly, seemed to be really absorbed in that day's lesson. It wasn't until lunch that they saw him reacting to anything really.
He'd chosen the same spot he had used from the morning, but instead of eating, he was working on something on his computer, which seemed to be frustrating him.
"Maybe you could go help him" Ulrich suggested. "As lonely as he is, it kinda hurts to see him get upset"
"I can't blame him" Odd spoke up from his food. "He's been stared at and had things said behind his back by almost everyone"
"Alright, I will" Jeremy said, standing up and walking over to him. "Need some help?" he asked Keifer, taking a seat next to him before he could say no.
"I don't know if you can help me" he said, showing Jeremy what he was working on, which shocked the blonde.
"What the…!" he read over the programming of what
Keifer was trying to achieve and it seemingly rivaled even Jeremy's own skills. From what Jeremy could piece together from one quick glimpse, it seemed that Keifer was trying to make seven stones containing mystical powers.
"I know you may be shocked" Keifer began as he continued typing, not looking away from the program, "but I've never met anyone who was able to even begin understanding ANY of this, except for an old friend of mine who moved away" he added blankly, still typing.
"I… I could help you" Jeremy said to him. It was a saturday afternoon and a certain someone wasn't rearing his ugly head, so he figured he had time.
"You'd really do that?" Keifer asked, suddenly looking away from his computer for the first time. "For a freak like me who everyone keeps staring at?"
"Hey, in my eyes, you aren't a freak, but rather, a really cool person" he said to him with a smile, cheering Keifer up.
"In that case" Keifer said, finishing his Chilli dog and closing his computer, "Meet me in our dorm" he said before leaving the cafeteria behind.
"So how did it go?" Yumi asked him as Jeremy sat back down.
"You guys won't believe this" he began telling them about the program Keifer was making, which shocked them all.
"So why would he want seven gems of power exactly?" Ulrich asked. "I mean, he could possibly something XANA sent from Lyoko, right?" he asked Jeremy, who was lost in thought.
"No, it can't be" he said. "XANA has never been able to recreate human emotions right, and to top that, Keifer is very human" he added. "After all, XANA would need to activate a tower in order to make a fake person, and there isn't one active right now"
"True" Aelita stated. "Well, me and Yumi were going to go see a movie. Anyone wanna come along?" she asked as the two stood up.
"Nah, me and Ulrich are gonna have a video game marathon" Odd said, standing up and stretching.
"And I agreed to help Keifer" Jeremy said. "Which in turn, should hopefully get us some answers" he added before leaving the group with a goodbye.
"Huh, I never thought you'd make it" Keifer joked as Jeremy walked in and pulled out his own computer. "I actually managed to get the program working!" he added excitedly showing Jeremy the test results he had gotten.
"That's great!" Jeremy said to him. "But how do you plan on using them?" he asked him curiously. Keifer's mood seemed to change for a minute, like he was feeling a tremendous pain.
"Can you keep a secret?" he finally asked quietly after a few moments. Jeremy reluctantly nodded and Keifer began speaking again. "If I can somehow manage to get them from my computer to the real world, then I'd be able to use their power through this" he said, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a shiny object.
"What is that?" Jeremy asked him cautiously.
"It's the Power Ring" Keifer told him, handing him the radiant ring. "It's infinite energy can basically double my power and speed" he explained as Jeremy marveled the glow it gave off. "It was a gift that my Uncle and another scientist worked on before… before my uncle Chuck was assassinated" he said quietly.
"I'm sorry to hear that" Jeremy said to him. "What happened to the other scientist?"
"After that and something else, he went under the radar with his family before disappearing" Keifer explained. "That's what I recall anyway"
Before either of them could speak again, Jeremy's computer started beeping and a program flashed on his screen with a red danger sign.
"Something wrong?" Keifer asked him as the boy tried getting ahold of his friends, but to no avail.
"Very wrong" Jeremy said quickly before taking off without another word.
"Hey!" Keifer yelled, catching up to him instantly, scaring Jeremy. "Whatever you need help with, I'll help you! After all, you were willing to help me, weren't you?" Keifer looked at the blonde before he nodded.
"First, we need to get William then" Jeremy said as they rounded the corner before slamming into someone else, causing them all to fall down.
"Ouch" the person who'd been on the receiving end said.
"Sorry about that" JEremy said before realising it was William. "William!" he exclaimed, seeing his friend. "Are you feeling better?"
"Still feeling like trash, but I'm up" he said before looking to Keifer who had just gotten up, still slightly dazed. "It can't be…" he said in shock.
"William, is that you?" Keifer asked, coming out of his daze. "Like, THE William Dunbar?"
"It's been so long since I've seen you old friend" he said to Keifer as they shook hands.
"You still the troublemaker I once knew?" Keifer asked him jokingly.
"Are you still the blue blur that can run a breezy 500 miles per hour?" he asked him, giving him his answer.
"I hate to break up the budding bromance guys, but we've got other problems!" Jeremy said.
"XANA?" William asked, his expression changing from happy to annoyed.
"And I can't get ahold of the others" Jeremy said to him.
"It's a good thing you bought Keifer with us" William said to him as they headed off for the factory.
"So who exactly is 'XANA'?" Keifer asked them, having to constantly slow down to their pace instead of keeping his own.
"Basically, an evil computer virus bent on world domination. Oh, and it really wants us dead" William explained to him as they reached the factory entrance.
"The only way we can stop him is by deactivating towers in this virtual world called Lyoko" he told Keifer as they reached the ropes leading down.
"These are too slow for me" he said as he jumped up, curled in a blue ball before landing on the floor ahead of the others.
"Didn't know you could do that" William remarked as they went down the large freight elevator.
"How do you even run that fast?" Jeremy asked him.
"It's a long story, but we don't have time right now!" Keifer exclaimed in shock as the elevator opened to the Super Computer, only to reveal a spectre attacking it.
"Jeremy, watch out!" William yelled, shoving the two of them out of the way as it fired a large bolt of energy at them.
"I've got this!" Keifer yelled, jumping in a ball again, but this time, his hands were still out and he was spinning himself faster than before.
"Holy -" before Jeremy could finish his sentence, Keifer had slammed through the spectre with tremendous force and speed, shattering it into a thousand red pixels.
"Told you he was a blue blur" William said to him as Jeremy ran to the super computer.
"Keifer, I need you to understand that Lyoko is very dangerous. Usually we have the whole group decide, but in my eyes, you've proven yourself more than enough. So can you prove to me that you can be part of the Lyoko Warriors?" he asked him.
"I… I can!" Keifer said, putting one fist forward and shaking it. "If it means protecting the world then I'll do it!"
"Good answer! Now get down to the scanners" Jeremy said to the two of them.
"Just follow my lead" William said to his friend as they each made it down to the scanning room and entered a respective scanner.
"Scanner, William!" Jeremy called as the tubes closed. "Scanner Keifer!" he called once more. "Sending, and virtualization!" he yelled, hitting enter on his keyboard as the two were swept away from the real world into the digital one. It was at that moment, Keifer knew he could trust them.
A/N; I have NO clue what happened with the formatting towards the middle. My apologies.