A little boy of 5 stands in the bath room brushing his teeth preparing to go to bed. He had hair as red as blood that seemed to bounce when he moved. Finishing his teeth, he walks into the computer room where his mom was supposed to be e-mailing her best friend, Mr. Hopper. He had a smile on his face as he always did. But as soon as he walked into the room the smile faded. He saw his mom laying back in her computer chair with her throat crushed. Next to her is a teenage boy with red hair and black roots. If little Scott hadn't been so scared he would of seen the teenager's strange clothing. Scott screams loudly, catching the older boy's attention.

"Go away," he said. "You don't interest me in any way" At that moment, Scott's mom's computer beeped, showing an e-mail from a 'Franz Hopper.' He quickly read it and said to himself, "So Hoppers going to go to Lyoko. And he's bringing little Aelita with him. I guess that I should go say hello." He took one last look at Scott, long enough to let him see the strange symbol in his eye, then he turned into a shadow and went into the computer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

10 YEARS LATER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Scott walked down the street towards his new school. He was wearing his favorite black baggy shorts, and favorite gray shirt. It said "Have a nice day…. Somewhere else." His adopted parents were going to enroll him there after they moved to France from Ann Arbor Michigan in the U.S. They had sent him ahead to see how he liked it. He never smiled anymore. Not since that day. His thoughts drifted a little so that he didn't have to think about it. He didn't notice that he crossed the street with out looking.

"Lookout!" a female voice screamed as tires screeched. The next thing that he knew, he was on the sidewalk with somebody on top of him. The car that had nearly hit him stopped and backed up until the driver was able to see them.

"You two alright?" the male driver asked.

"Yeah," the girl on top of Scott replied. "We're fine."

"Next time look both ways before you cross the street okay?" The driver then left.

"Thanks," Scott said. "But would you mind getting off me?"

"Sorry," she replied. They both got up and dusted themselves off. "I'm Yumi by the way."

"I'm Scott. Nice to meet you." He looked at her, examining her features. Asian, tall pretty, average size bust. Typical guy's first thoughts. She was still dusting herself off so she didn't notice. "Do you by any chance go to Kadic?"

"No I don't. But I'm preparing to enroll there. I'm going to guess that you do." Yumi nodded. " Well then, come on. I'll show you the way." They walk all the way there, talking about the teachers at the school and the classes offered.

When they walked through the doors, Yumi waved to a group of people standing by a bench. They all waved back as Yumi and Scott walked towards them.

"Hey Yumi. Who's your friend?" The girl who had spoken had pink hair and was a little shorter than Scott.

"Everybody, this is Scott. Scott, this is Aelita, Jeremy, Odd, and Ulrich." As Yumi spoke each of their names they raised their hand. "He's going to be joining us at Kadic."

"If I like it here," Scott said. "So far I've been nearly hit by a truck, knocked on to cement, and made five friends. I like it here already." As he said this, everybody's eyes opened a little wider. Just then, the bell rang to signal that class was about to begin.

"Well we all got to get to class," Yumi said. "Good luck with enrollment." Everybody walked to there classes. Scott walked around the school, looking for the office to enroll. He got stopped by one teacher and got the right directions. The teacher had on a sweatband, a light jacket, and a band aid on his left cheek. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

After Scott was successfully enrolled, he just walked around until lunch. When he arrived there he immediately spotted Yumi and her friends. He walked over and sat down next to the kid in the brown pants and green shirt.

"Hey guys," he said. "I guess that I'll be joining you at this table after today. I'm in now."

"Hey," Odd said. "I've just realized that I have seen that look before." He looks from Scott to Ulrich and back again. "You two have the same exact expression all the time."

Scott and Ulrich looked at each other and thought, 'How can he think something like that. We've got nothing in common with our face's. At about that time, Jeremie's computer began to beep like an alarm clock.

"Sorry Scott," Yumi said., "but we got to go." everyone at the table but Scott got up and ran out of the lunch room. Confused, he didn't notice a girl walk up behind him.

"They always do that," the girl said. She had a really whiney voice that got on Scott's nerves immediately. "That computer beeps and then they run off to who knows where doing who knows what."

"Thanks for the update," Scott replied, " but I'll just go see for myself what they do." He stood up and ran out of the cafeteria and went the same way the others had gone.

After a few minutes of running, he could see them. He immediately noted that he was faster than all of them. As he got closer, a man jumped out of the bushes and began to attack the others. Jeremie, Aelita, and Odd ran to a manhole cover and got in while Yumi and Ulrich stayed behind to fight the man. Scott hid behind a bush to watch and see what they did. His friends fought the man for about a minute before they started to lose the fight. Ulrich was knocked into a tree, unconscious. Yumi got shoved into another tree. He held her there, drawing his hand back to punch her in the face with a fist that appeared to be flowing with electricity. Scott quickly ran and kicked the man in the face, sending him to the ground a few feet away.

"What are you doing here Scott?" Yumi panted. She was worn out from the fight.

"Saving your ass apparently," Scott retorted. He turned to face the man again, but froze, eye's wide, as he got a good look at him. His body looked like it was glitching like in a video game. But that wasn't why he froze. In the man's eye was a strange symbol.

"That shape." Scott whispered just loud enough for Yumi to hear it. "The guy who murdered my mother ten years ago had that same mark in his eye……."