Name: Erik Heilman

Age: 19

Side: Xana

Abilities: Infection, Teleportation. Infection temporarily causes the target to fight for Xana until de-virtualization.

Weaponry: Dual two-bladed swords

This story is about how Xana came to be on Lyoko, why the towers are being activated, and how a boy of 19 is trying to rescue his uncle from Lyoko.

Chapter One: The Discovery

It is June 17 and Erik Heilman had just turned nineteen three months ago. While he was looking through his missing uncle's study (Who was missing for sixteen years) he stumbled upon a binder full of notes and letters all containing the name of Franz Hopper. Thinking the fact that his uncle knew someone by that name was strange he decided to do some research on this Franz Hopper, finding out that both Hopper and his twelve year old daughter went missing around eleven years ago a little bit less than coincidence he decide to buy a plane ticket to France. His flight was due to leave in eight days from America and land in France in nine days from now, and with that much free time Erik decided to look around the old house. It was when he entered the basement that he found something that shouldn't have been there, it was a trapdoor in the middle of the room so Erik opened it and climbed down a ladder where he found a pillar with what looked like an eye on it. He saw a switch on the side of the pillar so he decided he would pull the switch into the on position, when he did lights started coming on farther down the ladder so he continued going deeper into this mysterious room. When he got to the next level he found a chair and a glowing sphere next to a computer screen, seeing all this was starting to make him very curious so he sat down at the screen and pulled up his uncle's notes. This is when he found out about Lyoko and what Franz Hopper had to do with all of this, and also why his uncle went to France to meet Hopper, Franz Hopper was going to virtualize him onto Lyoko.

Erik heard a noise coming from the floor just below him so he went further down the ladder. At the bottom of the ladder were four cylinders about six feet tall and 3 feet across the middle and they were starting to turn on. Unknown of what might come out of the cylinders Erik went back up the ladder and closed the hatch to the bottom floor and sat back down at the computer screen. While looking through the data files Erik comes across a file that is titled virtualizationing, so he decided to open it, the file contains specific directions on how to virtualize a human onto Lyoko and also what the cylinders, which he now finds out are called scanners, are used for. He decides that he wants to go to France and see the lab that is linked to his uncle's lab and to check if there is any more information in that computer. Erik leaves the basement, but decides he will leave the computer on since it is also running its own power supply, to go pack his bags for a month trip to France to learn as much as possible about Franz Hopper and Lyoko.

This is my first story so sorry if it isn't that good I will take all comments into consideration to better the story with the chapters that are to come.