Description:
A scientist in Academy City discovers a way for computers to emulate a esper's powers which led to the creation of Project Carthage. However, the project was suddenly canceled for unknown reasons and was long forgotten until a student accidentally discovers the remains of the project and a powerful enemy.
This is a crossover story in which the plot of Code Lyoko takes place in Toaru Majutsu no Index's Academy City (or 'A certain magical Index' in English). For people coming over from Code Lyoko and don't know anything about Toaru Majutsu no Index, here are a few things that you should know. First is that Academy City, which is the primary setting in Toaru Majutsu no Index, is a city-state that like its name implies have lots of schools that teach students the power curriculum program. This program turns students into espers which are people who have supernatural powers. Espers can have a wide variety of supernatural powers including but not limited to telekinesis, telepathy, and electromaster (control of electricity similar to XANA's power). The strength of their power is measured on a scale of 0 to 5(0 having no power and 5 having the strongest). Basically think of having Lyoko powers in real life. For people who are coming over from in Toaru Majutsu no Index and don't know about Code Lyoko you all don't have to worry as this crossover story takes place in the beginning of the Code Lyoko's plot.
As like any other fanfiction, I do not own Code Lyoko or Toaru Majutsu no Index.
Chapter 1: Hello World
Kadic Academy is what most people consider the "odd ball school" in Academy City. It was the school for students who have little to no esper powers at all, who couldn't afford the tuition fees of any other schools or for trouble makers who got kicked out of other schools. It is ranked one of the lowest of all schools in Academy City in terms of esper development with a majority of students at level 0, a very few amount of level 1s and only 1 level 2 student that also happens to be the principle's daughter. Kadic Academy also had an awkward student age range as it offered education to both junior high and high school students. With all that aside it was still considered a great school compared too other schools outside of Academy city as it still offers good education in mathematics, science and literature. Kadic Academy also has a surprisingly large campus complete with dorms, a cafeteria, and even a small park.
So how did an intelligent student like me got enrolled in this school out of all the famous schools in Academy City? Well other than the fact that I'm a level 0 with no chance to level up. I can say that I like how that this school doesn't require students to wear uniforms and that all the classes are easy. Not saying that I'm lazy and don't like challenging myself. It's just that way I have lots of free time to spend on my personal projects like programming computer programs and building robots.
I start up my computer to make an update on my encrypted video diary, pressing the record button and started speaking.
"Diary of Jeremie Belpois, Kadic Academy, 8th grade student, August 9th. A few weeks ago I was hunting for parts to finish building my miniature robots. I couldn't find anything here in the academy that I could use so when I heard about an old abandoned factory nearby I decided that I will sneak out of the school tonight to see if I could find anything useful. I wish myself good luck on my scraping run."
I saved the recording and looked outside though my dorm room window. The sun has already set. Looking at my watch it was also past curfew but that didn't stop me as I knew a tunnel under the school that leads to the sewers under the city. That way no one could see me outside of the school campus until I'm already at the factory. I left my dorm room and headed downstairs. Once on the ground floor, I went around the staircase and opened the door that said 'Maintenance - Students prohibited beyond this point'. I find that funny as the staff always kept that door unlocked for 3 years that I have been here. Pass that door was a room filled with cleaning supplies that no one uses as the cleaning robots did all of the work. Perhaps the last janitor that works here forgot to lock it which explains why the door was unlocked for all these years.
Other that the cleaning supplies there was a metal door that leads into the sewers. I went in and entered the sewer system. There was only a mild odor in the sewers because all that comes in the sewers in Academy City was just rain water as cleaning robots up on the street picked up any litter on the ground. After a short jog of about 8 blocks, I climbed up a ladder that brought me right next to the bridge that leads to my destination. I looked around before coming out on the surface making sure no one was near enough to see me cross the bridge. The factory was built on an artificial island that was in the river that flows through Academy City and was definitely old and abandoned with shattered windows and rust on anything steel that was exposed to the weather. I crossed the bridge and once inside I found that the ground level was below me and that I was standing on the second floor that over looked the first. There was a set of ropes that hung on the ceiling that I used to slide my way to the ground floor. The ground floor itself was actually empty of any machinery. After a short walk around I determined that this floor was mostly for storage and a loading dock for trucks that could enter though the front door. The machinery must be located somewhere else. The only other thing on the ground level was a cargo elevator that is most likely broken but I might as well give it a try.
With a push on the button the elevator actually opened up. Surprised that this factory still had power I decided to venture further into the depths of the factory as I pushed the button that took me to the level underneath the ground floor. The elevator actually took a while to go down as it continued to go deeper. 'The levels under the ground floor must be under the river.' I thought as the elevator finally stopped and opened up to unveil a circular room with a raised platform. On the platform was a computer display setup overhanging from the ceiling with lots of wires connected to it and a table in the center that after a quick look and with my vast knowledge of computer systems I identified the table as a holographic display.
'Must be the control room.' I thought as I went on the seat that was dusty and looked at the display setup. There were 4 screens with a large one in the center, 2 smaller screens on the sides and another smaller one on top of the in the center. Under the center display was a keyboard with a headset speaker and microphone. I found what looks like a power switch and stitched it on. The displays turned on but only showed an error message that read 'Error: Main supercomputer system is currently offline.'
Determined to find out what this supercomputer system was doing an old abandoned factory I tracked where the wires led to. The wires first went up to the ceiling and then went down to the floor and led to the floor underneath the one I currently on. I didn't use the elevator as there where a ladder that leads to the floor below. I climbed down the ladder. The room was also circular like the floor above. I saw 3 large and tall cylinder like objects with massive bulky cables attached on them. They had sliding doors that made the object look like if people where to go inside the objects. Whatever these objects are they are not the supercomputer system that was looking for. Once again I followed the cables that appear to continue down deeper into the factory, that is if this was even a factory. This place has more like a computer lab that was made to be hidden from the public.
The ladder I used early only led me to this room and didn't continue any further down so I used the elevator to advance further down the 'factory'. After the short ride on the elevator the door opens and I enter the lowest level. The first thing I noticed was the temperature of the room. It was freezing cold but makes this room a perfect location for a supercomputer. There was a pedestal with a control box a few feet away from where I was standing. I approached the pedestal and pushed a button labeled 'open'. I was amazed at what I saw as the floor at the center of the room slid open and a large object slowly rose up. It was also cylindrical like the objects in the level above but was wider and had another cylindrical extrusion above the base. The whole object was covered in gold plating with fans and LED lights all over the object. 'This has to be the supercomputer.' I thought as I approached the supercomputer. On the wide cylindrical base was a small door that opened and a lever popped out like if it was asking me to pull it down.
'Was this lever used to start the machine?' I thought as I looked at the lever, feeling unsure of what it would do. I was scared stiff as I laid my hand on it. 'I hope I won't regret this.' I thought as I pushed the down on the lever hard. Immediately the gold plating on the supercomputer glowed bright and the fans and LEDs turned on. All that I thought was 'WOW. So that's how it feels to start a supercomputer.' I walked back to the elevator and went back to the level with the displays. "Now let's see what you got under the hood my friend." I said as I got on the seat the center screen displayed a loading bar that just finished. All the other screens then displayed all the user interface that was associated with the supercomputer's status like operating temperature, power supply status and other details. The center screen had a window that was the main terminal and took up most of the display area. After looking around and getting use to the interface, a new window opens up and shows a face of a girl with pink hair. She had her eyes closed and it looked like if she was sleeping. "What is this? Some sort of video game?" I said out loud. The girl then opens her eyes and looks around. She then looked towards me and said "Who are you? Where am I?"
POV: third person
The school's bell rung signaling students that it was time for them to enter the classrooms. Jeremie walked into his science class. He was still tired as he didn't get much sleep after his discovery of the supercomputer and a virtual girl. Behind him at a desk a student was talking with another student. He recognized one of them but not the other.
"Uh... Are you Ulrich Stern?" the unknown voice said.
"That depends. Who wants to know?" the other student asked slightly annoyed.
"Odd Della Robbia. His brand new roommate."
"What!?"
"I'm new at the academy and the principle told me to move in with you."
"Latch on to me sounds more like it."
"Relax. I'm totally cool. Trust me you see you won't even know I'm there."
"I sure hope so. Look we don't exactly go way back so for now let's take things nice and slow. OK?"
"OK and plus I'm currently staying in a hotel for now but I will be moving in this weekend so for now let's get to know each other."
Just entering into the classroom was a girl with long black hair, pink shirt with long dark puce colored pants. She walked casually trough the classroom with the sense of authority towards the desk Ulrich and his new roommate were at.
"Hi there Ulrich sweetheart. I got something very important to tell you."
"Important like 'I lost my favorite hairbrush or I spilled finger nail paint all over my pants?'"
"No nothing as serious as that. It's something about you and me Ulrich. If you want to know more come by my dorm room tomorrow night at 9." The girl said with an additional note of "I'm counting on you" before finally leaving to her desk.
Odd simply grinned during short the conversation.
"Ulrich 'sweetheart' who's the good looking babe?" Odd teased.
Still looking annoyed Ulrich replied.
"Sissy. She's the principle's daughter. Guys flip over her but she has only flipped over me."
"That pretty cool."
"Cool? She is totally brain dead and annoying as well."
"In that case she pretty lame." Odd said taking back his word.
After the classes where finished for the day the students went on with their daily lives. Some went back to their dorm rooms while others went out of the school campus to go shopping or eat out in a restaurant. It was a Friday after all. But one of them went back to a certain factory. With only a short discussion with the virtual girl last night before needing to go back to his dorm for school in the morning, Jeremie wanted to know more about the supercomputer. He quickly logged back into the supercomputer and put on the headset.
"Artificial Intelligence can you hear me?"
A new window opened up and the same virtual girl from yesterday appeared.
"Yes I'm here but could you call me something else please?"
Jeremie thought for a second before he replied.
"OK. How do you like the name Maya?"
"Maya? I like that but what I really like is if you could tell me what I'm I doing here?"
"As a matter of fact that is what I also want to find out. Let me see if I can find any files about that."
As Jeremie started to browse through files stored in the supercomputer, Maya was waiting patiently when a thought came up in her mind.
"I sorry but I don't think I ever got your name before?"
"Oh sorry, It's Jeremie. Jeremie Belpois."
"It's alright Jeremie. Also have found anything yet?"
"Hmm... Interesting. According to this log file you are in this virtual world called Lyoko. I don't know where you are in it but let me see if I can find some sort of map."
Maya looked around her. She was in this dark circular void with what looks like some of program windows all over the walls with code on them. Looking up she noticed that there was no ceiling as the walls with code seem to continue forever. Below her she was standing on a platform shaped in an eye like icon with the holographic screen she used to talk with Jeremie hovering above it. She then walked towards the edge of the platform, looking down and careful not to fall over, what see saw was identical to what she saw looking up as the walls continue to go down forever.
"Hey Maya. I thing I found a map program. It says that you are in a tower of some sort. See if you can find an exit."
"Ok. I'll see what I can find."
On the eye shaped platform one of the 4 thick eyelashes extends to the wall. Maya walked up to the wall. She looked around the wall trying to find some sort of opening.
"Jeremie I can't find anything. Wait hold on a second." Maya said as she placed her hand on the wall. At first the wall was solid but when she pushed against it her hand slipped right trough. She then used her other hand and pushed outwards and made it through the wall. Outside of the tower she saw tall skinny but leafless trees. The whole ground that she was standing on was a massive floating platform with roads everywhere.
Over on Jeremie's side, he watched the map program and saw that Maya left the tower.
"Jeremie you should see this."
"Give me a second I thing I found a program that can let me what you can see."
The program opened up and gave Jeremie a first person view of what Maya could see and was amazed of what he saw. Then a new program started up automatically with the words 'Initializing Holographic World Map' with a loading bar that filled up quickly. Then on his side the holo-table in the middle of the room projected a map. On the map was 5 separate land masses one colored green, another colored yellow, then blue, then purple, and finally the tiny one in the center of the 4 other worlds colored white.
"Maya there isn't just a forest out there, there is an entire whole world! I count 4 major land masses. Each one different from the other." Jeremie said as Maya was walking on the road but then saw 2 small robotic creatures move towards her. They had the same eye like logo as on the platform on their head like apparatus with a single red eye and 4 short robot like legs.
"Jeremie I'm not the only one in this world. There are 2 creatures in front of me."
"That's fantastic this supercomputer not only holds a whole virtual world but also a virtual ecosystem too!" Jeremie said as the creatures continued to get closer to Maya, stopping when they are only several feet away. Their eye then glowed bright red before shooting out lasers.
"Jeremie they are attacking me!" Maya said as she quickly turned around and started to run.
"Run away Maya! Get back in the tower!" Jeremie yelled into the microphone as Maya ran taking a few hits. Jeremie saw that a new window popped up showing that Maya had lost some hit-points.
"Hurry up Maya!" Jeremie again yelled.
Maya was only a few inches away from the tower before she took another hit that pushed her into the tower. She fell over from that last hit and fell on the platform. After a few tense seconds Jeremie looked at the screen and saw that Maya hit-points where slowly growing back.
"Maya your hit-points are regenerating." Jeremie informed. He laid back on his seat taking a deep-breath then wondering what he is going to do now.
In the office of Judgment branch 177 everything was quiet. Uiharu sat on her seat staring on her computer's screen waiting for a new message from H.Q. That is if one ever comes. She was extremely bored, almost to the point of begging that a new case would arrive in her mailbox. Ever since the school year began there wasn't much to do except for signing documents and other minor things which was quick and easy for her to handle. It was only her in the office since her partner, Shirai-san, left the office to do her regular patrols. Then there was a knock on the door.
'Finally something to do.' She thought as she opened the door. It was her two friends Misaka-san and Saten-san.
"Hi Misaka-san and Saten-san. What bring you all here?"
"We were just wondering if you and Kuroko would like to eat out for dinner. Is Kuroko here?" Misaka asked noticing that Kuroko was absent in the office.
"No. She is currently out doing her patrols but should be back soon. You all could wait here in the office to wait for her if you want to."
Misaka and Saten accepted and entered the office. They noticed how clean the office was. During the summer when they had big cases to solve like the Level Upper case the office was a mess with papers everywhere.
"Not much work to do?" Saten asked
"Yep. It kind of feels odd without any cases to solve." Uiharu responded.
"Well isn't that what Judgment wants? To keep order in Academy city." Misaka asked.
"It is but still sitting in this office without doing anything to do is just boring." Uiharu
"I know how to fix that! Let me tell you this interesting story I found online." Saten said.
"Another one of your urban legends?" a voice said. The 3 girls looked at the door. Their friend Shirai just teleported came back from her patrol.
"No. As a matter of fact this legitimately happened in Academy City 4 years ago." Saten responded.
"Then tell us. It's going to be a lot better that me siting on this desk all day." Uiharu said.
"4 years in Academy City a day started just like any normal day that was until strange things started to happen. Traffic lights started to malfunction casing grid locks all over the city. Cellular communication also malfunctioned. Then blackouts occurred without a warning but then the biggest event took place."
"What? What happened?" Uiharu asked.
"Kind of reminds me of a day at work a few months ago." Kuroko said giving Misaka a quick glance.
"Hey it wasn't my fault that a transformer station was nearby." Misaka said remembering the time when she accidentally knocked the power when she was fighting some Skill-Out gangs last summer.
"The biggest event was the attack of the electric whips." Saten continued.
"The what?" the 3 other girls said.
"Electric whips. They are these ghost like floating balls that zapped anything that came close to them. There was report of 6 of them in Academy City when they all attacked. Anti-Skill tried everything to stop them couldn't do anything to the electric whips but after only several minutes they all just disappeared into thin air. In total they injured 28 people during their attack, 8 of which was Anti-Skill personnel fortunately no one was killed. After the attack a 3-month long investigation started but they couldn't find anyone who could do this. Even to this today no one knows who did it but there are rumors that this was done by a very powerful electromaster, possibly powerful enough to even rival Misaka-san." Saten explained.
"That ridiculous there are only 7 level 5s in Academy City, me being the only electromaster among them. And even I don't know to create these 'electric whips'. If these 'electric whips' are created by an electromaster's power, there has to be multiple level 4s behind this and even then I doubt they could create 6 of them. I meet other level 4 electromasters and they are all far behind me." Misaka protested.
"Then what about that mysterious 6th most powerful level 5?" Uiharu asked.
"He or she still couldn't be able to do it." Misaka continued to protest.
"Hold on a second. I need to check this in the data banks. If an event like this happened why wouldn't I know about it." Kuroko said as the when to her laptop and started to check the history of all cases 4 years ago and was surprised that there was a case to this event. Opening the case data was everything related to the incident including where the 'electric whips' did their attack, a list of injured people, and a final report on the incident by the investigation team. She quickly read the report and sure enough everything Saten said was true.
"I can't believe that the investigation team just gave up trying to find who was responsible for what they have done." Kuroko said
Uiharu who also read the report on her computer replied to Kuroko.
"They had no leads and spent 3 months trying to find out who did it. There was nothing else they could do in this investigation and went on to other cases."
"But still! Knowing that 28 people got attacked without an answer for why it has happened can't be ignored."
"So you're planning to continue the investigation." Misaka asked.
"Yup. After all it is still better that just patrolling around the city with nothing else to do. Don't you agree Uiharu?" Kuroko asked her partner.
"Absolutely. I will send a request for us to take over the case to H.Q." Uiharu said and immediately started to type the request on her computer to H.Q. even thought their chances of solving the 4-year-old case was slim at best.
The next day was a Saturday as students from all schools filled the streets of Academy City. Like the summer, when students don't have classes to attend they go out to shop, eat or hangout with their friends. However, for Ulrich Stern it was a stressful morning. He has to clean up his dorm room so that his new roommate could move in but he didn't know when he was coming as Odd just said 'this weekend'. Not wanting to be unprepared he started to clean up his dorm and hide his valuables like his vintage CD collection. After he was done he checked his bed side clock. It was already noon and he didn't even had breakfast yet. Feeling hungry he left his dorm room and went out to a restaurant to eat.
The restaurant he went to was a Joseph's Coffee and Restaurant. It was your average restaurant, nothing fancy about it. A waiter took Ulrich's order of a cheese burger and fries. As he waited for his food he overheard a conversation in the table right beside his. Over on that table was 4 girls. Judging from their uniforms 2 were from Tokiwadai middle school and the other 2 from Sakugawa. 2 from each school are Judgment officers.
"Onee-sama why you and Saten-san with me and Uiharu-san during our investigation. We don't want you to get hurt when we find the one responsible for the attacks." the Judgment officer with the Tokiwadai uniform said.
"Me and Saten-san can defend ourselves just fine." The other student with the Tokiwadai uniform responded.
"Also it is extremely unlikely we will find anything by visiting the places where the attacks took place as it happened 4 years ago. Anti-Skill already cleaned up the damages caused by the attacks." The student wearing the Sakugawa uniform without the green Judgment armband said.
"Even so our Judgment training told us that during an investigation every detail no matter how small must be taken under consideration." The Judgment officer with the Tokiwadai uniform responded.
Ulrich didn't know what 'attack' the girls were talking about. Academy city is possibly the safest city to be in with all the robots patrolling around, reporting anything suspicious to Judgment and Anti-Skill for them to investigate. The 4 girls left the restaurant as Ulrich began eating his own meal. They headed to the small park in which one of the electric wisps was sighted. Along the way there Misaka and Saten was still trying to convince their Judgment friend that they wanted to help. Shirai finally decided that it was safe enough for civilians to help with her and Uiharu's investigation.
"Alright. You and Saten-san can help us."
She knew that it was against Judgment's code to involve civilians in investigations unless they were witnesses but she is sure that she could get away with it by making it look like a common lost item search and plus she can get some time with just herself and her Onee-sama.
"Saten-san and Uiharu-san can search the east half while me and Onee-sama can search the west half." Shirai commanded as the 2 girls went to their half. She and Misaka then began their searching, looking under benches, bushes and even on top off street lights thanks to her teleporting powers. They searched for 5 minutes until Shirai teleported right beside Misaka.
"Onee-sama why don't we take a break. I'll buy some drinks for us."
"Ok sure." Misaka said as she took a seat on a bench before realizing that Shirai was going to use that infamous vending machine that eats people's money.
"Hold on a second Kuroko! Don't you remember that vending machine is broken?"
Shirai turned around to face Misaka.
"Onee-sama did you really expect me to buy you drinks from a vending machine that sells cheap drinks? I was going to a cafe to get you a real drink."
Shirai turned back to her original direction in order to see where she was going to teleport to. She was just about to teleport until she saw a student with glasses approach the broken vending machine. She was about to warn the student that the vending machine was broken but he already inserted his coins into machine and was about to select his drink when the most bizarre thing happened. When the student touched the button arks of electricity came out of the vending machine and shocked the student.
"Aaaahhh!"
The student's glasses fell off his head as he fell to the ground. Other students nearby heard the scream and went to see what just happened. It all happened so quickly that Shirai stood still, not believing what she just saw. It scared her of not being able to prevent people from getting injured. Shirai glanced at Misaka as she was the closest electromaster.
"That wasn't me." Misaka said claiming her innocence.
"Jeremie!" Ulrich yelled as he ran from the sidewalk to the shocked student. He grabbed his glasses and placed it back on his head. Shirai and Misaka also ran up towards the injured student and his assumed friend.
"I'm with Judgment. Are you alright?" Shirai said as she showed her Judgment armband.
Jeremie groaned slightly, indicating that he was barely conscious.
"We need to get him to a hospital." Ulrich said urgently.
With the help of Shirai's teleporting abilities they quickly got Jeremie to a nearby hospital. A frog faced doctor measured Jeremie's heart rate and blood pressure.
"Nothing too serious. Just a minor electric shock and some superficial burns. I can release now once you have signed some papers." the doctor said.
Relived that Jeremie has alright he decided to cheer up Jeremie's mood by telling a joke.
"You wanted some juice. Well you got some."
Jeremie chuckled at his joke.
"Very funny Stern but thank you all the same. Also could you tell that Judgment officer my thanks for bringing me here."
"Sure thing. I'll come by your dorm room to check on you latter after my martial arts class."
Outside the room Shirai and Misaka were waiting in the main lobby of the hospital. Uiharu and Saten entered in the hospital. They found Misaka and Shirai siting in the seats and ran to them.
"What happened! Me and Saten were just searching around until we heard a scream. Then you said over the radio that there was a medical emergency and told us to meet in this hospital." Uiharu asked.
"A student was injured by an electric shock and we had to bring him here." Shirai responded.
"Did Misaka shocked him?" Satan asked.
"I didn't shock him, though it was weird." Misaka said
"How was it weird?" Satan and Uiharu asked wanting to know.
"He was shocked by a vending machine." Shirai said.
"Shocked by a vending machine?" Uiharu asked.
"That would make a perfect urban legend story." Satan said.
"No it was more than that. Right before he was shocked I felt the presence of another electromaster inside of the vending machine, like if the vending machine was the electromaster but when the student was shocked it just disappeared like if it wasn't even there." Misaka added.
"An electromaster inside of a vending machine? Onee-sama don't be crazy. A person couldn't fit inside of a vending machine and machines can't be electromasters." Shirai responded.
"If Misaka-san sensed an electromaster that shocked the student and then disappear just like the electric wisps 4 years ago. Than this has to be connected to our case." Uiharu said.
At the other side of the room, Ulrich stepped into the lobby and saw the Judgment officer among with 3 other girls. He approached them to deliverer his message.
"Hey Jeremy wanted me to tell you his thanks for helping him here." Ulrich said.
"Is he all right? I need to ask him some questions." Shirai asked.
"Yea. The doctor said that be just suffered a minor electric shock and some small burns. I need to get back to my school's dorm. It is almost curfew." Ulrich said and then left the hospital.
"Misaka-san and Saten-san, you two should go back too while me and Uiharu-san question the boy." Shirai ordered.
Both girls complied and left to their dorms. Shirai and Uiharu entered the hallway, searching for the room were the boy was but couldn't find him. They then asked the doctor where he was.
"Do you know where that boy's room is? We need to question him for a Judgment investigation." Shirai asked.
"You mean Jeremie Belpois, the student you brought in. He just left a few minutes ago." the frog faced doctor said.
"Then do you know what school he attends? We are in an investigation and we need to speak with him." Uiharu asked.
The doctor looked through some of the papers he had. He found the papers that had basic information that he asked Jeremie to sign and found what school he attended.
"Jeremie attends Kadic Academy in district 7." the doctor responded.
The 2 girls thanked the doctor and left the hospital. It was starting to get late so the girls called it a day so that they could go to Kadic Academy the next day.
Ulrich ran back to Kadic Academy. He had a martial arts class in the gymnasium and hoped that he wasn't late. Opining the doors reviled an empty room. Ulrich thought that either he was the first one here or the class already finished without him. He checked his clock and found that he barely made it in time. A supply room's door opened and out came Kadic Academy's physical education teacher, Mr. Morales but he preferred his students to call him by his first name, Jim. He was a Canadian with well-built arms but ironically had quite some mass in his body.
"Welcome. Just take a seat on the floor. Class will begin in a minute." Jim said as he rolled a large mat out of the storage room with slight difficulty. Ulrich sat in the center since there wasn't anyone else in the class. Once Jim finished setting up the mat he then approached his single student class. He had a script of what to say memorized but it may not work well his single student class but decided to go with it anyways.
"How are you all? I'm happy to see so many of you here tonight. Canari Paya! Kogusoku! Jutsu! No, these are not dishes from the Golden Dragon Chinese restaurant. Hahaha! Eh? Ah…no offense, Miss Ishiyama."
Behind Ulrich a girl entered into the gymnasium. Not amused or offended by Jim's humor she responded.
"None taken sir. I'm Japanese." she said as she took a seat on the floor right beside Ulrich.
"Anyways these are combat techniques that can save your life. As they did for me when I was a forest ranger in Quebec!"
"Really? What happened?" Ulrich asked.
"That night, well, I was quietly enjoying a waffle with maple syrup by my campfire when I was attacked by a vicious beaver! Its razor-sharp teeth were going for my jugger, but I was able to save myself thanks to my perfect mastery of the Raging Hand of Lei Fu Chang!"
Both Ulrich and the girl burst laughing at their teacher's ridiculous story.
"What? What's so funny about that?"
"Excuse us sir." the girl replied.
"Honestly, I think you would've been better off not talking about it." Ulrich added.
"Right. Ok then enough laughing. Before we start practicing there is something that I want to make clear. As much as this city is known for espers, this is a martial arts class. Which means that you are not to uses whatever esper powers that you may have. If I catch you using them to have an advantage, you will be accompanying me in campus beautification. Now let's get to groups of 2."
Ulrich didn't have to worry about 'campus beautification', which was a term used as an alternative to picking up trash, as he like most of the students in Kadic didn't have any esper powers at all but he wasn't sure about his sparring partner. Either way he was very experienced as he had been taking martial arts ever since he was little boy and would like to have a challenge against a esper. The 2 of them went to the mat and bowed to each other. Both then took their fighting stance and began looking for an opening to attack. Ulrich's opponent took the first move as she raised her left foot to kick. Ulrich blocked her kick with his arms and immediately countered attacked. She quickly dodged his attack and both where again looking for any openings.
"Not bad for a beginner." Ulrich complemented.
His opponent responded by giving a round house kick to his head. Ulrich fell to the mat by his opponent's kick and went on him to pin him down. Ulrich tried to push her off of him with her pushing down on him. Then both of them then realized how awkward of a position they were in.
"Not bad but you could both use a lot more work. That will do it for tonight kids. Bow to each other and go get some beauty sleep." Jim said to his class of 2. The girl bowed but Ulrich didn't. He then left the gymnasium.
"Well nice to meet you too." the girl said offended by his disrespect.
Ulrich went to the dorms and went to his room. After that embarrassing fight, he wanted to take a shower and go to sleep to forget what happened. Opening the door, he was greeted by an unpleasant display of papers, bed sheets, clothing and his valuable CD collection all over the floor. There was also a dog in his bed chewing his pillow.
"What is with this mess! Where did that mutt come from!"
On the other bed in the room his new roommate, Odd, was sleeping and was awaken from Ulrich voice.
"That's Kiwi, my dog. He just had a little fit that's all. You'll understand, the poor thing not used to being cooped up."
"I mean look at this! My CDs, my clothes, he trashed everything and Ewww! Did you just see what he did in my bed!"
Odd saw a yellow wet spot on the bed and he knew what that is.
"Sorry but I couldn't take him out with everyone around. There are no dogs allowed in Kadic."
"No kidding! I think the principle going to be interested to hear about this!" Ulrich said. He left the room to head straight to the principal's office.
"That's ok Kiwi, my little diggity dog." Odd said to his dog as the dog ripped Ulrich's pillow in half, adding feathers to the list of things on the ground.
In another room in Kadic's Dormitory, Jeremie was programming a program that would let him to remotely access the supercomputer from his computer in his dorm room. As he was busy typing away on his keyboard his computer's monitor started to display static.
"What's going on?"
The static then turned into a red eye like logo. Jeremie recognized the logo as it was the same one on the monsters that attacked Maya on Lyoko. Right beside him, his robot's motors started to spin which was impossible since he removed their batteries to charge them. They then charged at Jeremie shocking him with electricity when they came into contact.
"Aaaahhh!"
Ulrich heard the familiar scream as he walked through the halls to the principle's office. He then ran to where the screams where coming from and opened the door to the dorm room. He saw Jeremie once again getting shocked but this time from robots.
"Hang on!" Ulrich said as he picked up one of the robots and threw it at the wall. Another robot collided with his leg shocking him with arks of electricity. He kicked it destroying it too. The remaining robots then cease their attack as their motors came to a stop. Both Jeremie and Ulrich survived the attack without and serious injuries.
"Your little friends are kind of aggressive maybe you should check their settings."
"I had nothing to do with it. They just attacked me all of a sudden."
"You lost me. Do you mind explaining?"
"No, forget it."
"Come on tell me. Maybe I could be of some help. What if you suddenly got attacked by a hairdryer and I'm not around?"
"Ha. Very funny." Jeremie said however Ulrich wasn't going to take a no for an answer.
"I'm not leaving leaving this room until I know what is going on." Ulrich replied.
Jeremie thought about it. He didn't want Ulrich to know about the supercomputer and Lyoko but Ulrich was already too involved. Not to mention that he was attacked twice today.
"Ok. What do I got to lose I'm already way in over my head so I might as well tell you. It's just so crazy." Jeremie said. He then closes the door making sure no one else hears them.
"First tell me if you can keep a secret?"
In the dorm rooms of Tokiwadai middle school. Misaka was ready to sleep for the night but her roommate, Shirai, was still working on her laptop.
"Kuroko it is almost 9. You should get ready for bed."
"Alright Onee-sama. Just give me a few more minutes."
"What are you looking at? Kadic Academy?" Misaka said as she looked over Shirai's shoulder to see what she was reading.
"This is the school that Jeremie Belpois is attending. He already left when me and Uiharu tried to find him in the hospital. We are going there tomorrow and ask that student some questions since he may know some things that could help us find the one responsible for the attacks."
"For a school that has a campus size almost twice of our school is a disappointment in Academy City if it has an esper development ratting that low." Misaka said as she looked on the school's statistics. It is if not the lowest she has ever seen.
"Which make it more confusing. Pretty much all assault crimes in Academy City are done by people who hate espers like Skill-out. Why would someone attack that specific student? I checked his file. He is a level 0. So what is our suspect's end goal?" Shirai asked.
"I don't care what his end goal is. I just want to show him what a railgun is." Misaka replied arching a few joules of electricity around her hands.
"Well we have to first find him. He is go good at hiding and leaving no trails that we don't even know if the attacker is a he. Let's just hope questing Jeremie would give us something solid to go with." the Judgment officer said.
They both went to bed to get a good night sleep so that they could continue their investigation tomorrow morning.
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