Another fanfic from another noob. I really hope I don't butcher up stuff and if I do, please correct me via comment. If you've got a suggestion, PM me and I'll respond as fast as my high school wifi allows. Anyways, enjoy! Rated T for reasons.
Jax POV
We where moving. Again.
Both of my parent worked all over the world, advertising small businesses for a company share. Every one-half to two years, my parents and I moved to a different country. First was Canada, where I was born and where they got their jobs, then off to London when I was three. Then came China, Brazil, India, the U.S., Thailand, Germany, Japan, Thailand again, Italy, Spain, and right now, me being a sophomore in high school, France.
Some of you might say that this was a good cultural experience and that I should be taking advantage, and I did. Moving again and again taught me many things, like Muy Thai, guns, and programming advanced enough to make an operating system. It also taught me not to bother with friends. I would move and the ties would break, so I stopped having a social life.
So we where in France and the three of us where unpacking. Mum told me to try and make friends, so I said I would. Since the one month space that I would usually spend learning the local language was free, (Canadian French was good enough, I thought) I spent some time working on a video game of mine. It basically was a rip off of Street Fighter, but it was going along great.
Anyways, first day of school at Kadic Academy, the boarding school (home was a six hour metro ride away) that I'd be going to for about ten seconds. I've been through this a dozen times and know exactly which type of people and cliques to look out for. The "King/Queen" of the school and his/her lackeys, the nerds, blah blah blah. Mom and Dad dropped me off with all my stuff. I took it up to my room, unpacked with the help of my roommate, and fell asleep, wondering what the next day would bring.
The next day was interesting, to say the least.
Right after a breakfast files with stares, there was an announcement officially introducing me to the school. Everybody looked at me throughout the whole day. I didn't pay any mind to them. I looked at the students. There where the jocks, the nerds, the cool kids, and the so-called queen of the school with a nerd and a jock following her almost everywhere. Then there was one group that caught my eye.
I was in the library after classes and there was an unlikely mix of people sitting together. A nerd typing away on his laptop was surrounded by people. There was a black haired girl, Asian by the looks of it, a guy with brown hair holding her hand, (most likely bf/gf) a pink haired girl, and a guy who's hair made it look like he stepped out of an anime. Sure, they where an odd group, but there always where here and there I turned my attention back to the book that I was previously reading.
A good half hour passed when I heard a sudden ruffle. The "odd group" was packing up their stuff and began heading out the door; they seemed to be in a rush all of the sudden. I wondered what they could be up to and, after a moment's habitation, began following them. Their rushing footsteps echoed and where easy to follow. I saw as they rushed off campus, and would've seen exactly where they went when-
"Hey, new kid!"
Dammit. I hated when people called me that. I turned to face the "school queen", her diligent followers behind her.
"My name is Jackson," I responded through gritted teeth "and what do you want?"
"Well," she said, one hand on her hip and and another in front of her, "I saw you stalking those losers and thought you where really desperate to make friends. You don't have to stoop to their level, why not join us?"
Wow. What a bitch. She honestly thought that my best option was to be with her? I was about to tell her to go screw herself and leave me alone when I thought about it. If any of my previous experiences had told me anything, the saying "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" was very true. I would rather them at my side (no matter how grudgingly so) than have them bully me. Besides, she seemed to be a gossip girl and she was the principal's daughter, so she'd be a good information source.
With that in mind, as well self insults for making this regrettable decision, I accepted. With a smile on her face, she asked me if I wanted to mess with the younger students. I said no and walked away, wondering what I had gotten myself into.
Jeremy POV
We all rushed through the sewer to get to the factory. My laptop had said that no towers where activated, but XANA was showing high activity levels. Nobody needed to be virtualized, but I needed to take a look at the supercomputer directly to run a full diagnostic. The entire time I was sweating, worried about what I might find.
When we got to the computer, I pulled up some graphs for the others to see and explained the situation.
"This graph to the left, the lowest one, shows XANA's activity levels, his actions or interactions, when idle." The section on the bar graph indicated was little more than a square. "This is XANA during a tower activation, five times more active. This is what level he's at now, three times more active than a tower activation." There was a stunned silence. Then:
"But how can his levels be so high without a tower activation?" asked Odd, scratching his head. "D'you think he is activating one and you can't see from here?"
"No," I said, shaking my head. "tower activation is such a big event, half the wires would need to be ripped out for me to notice. XANA's thinking a lot. He's planning something huge."
Dun Dun DUUUUNNNNN! Hope you enjoyed this first chapter. I tried to put some excitement in early and I hope it wasn't too soon. See you next update!
