Chapter 2: The Accidental Meeting

Nine days have passed since Erik had discovered the super computer in his uncle's basement and he is now in France. He stops by the Paris Police Station and asks if he could find out where Franz Hopper lived and worked. The Police Captain said there will be a fee of fifty Euros so Erik paid and was given the information, he waited until he was out of the Police station and went to a café and started looking through the file. Erik found out that Hopper was a Teacher at Kadic Academy in the town of Boulogne-Billancourt a suburb of Paris, and is only one-hundred and sixty-eight blocks away. Erik bought a sandwich and a cup of coffee and ate before leaving for Kadic, it is a lovely day so Erik decided he would walk for a while and then take a bus if needed. The bus idea was a good one after he walked about seventy blocks, he was dead tired, so he walked to the next bus stop paid the fair for the trip to Kadic and relaxed the rest of the way.

The bus stopped at Kadic and Erik said Merci (Merci is French for thank you) to the driver for going out of his way for him to get to the school. Erik was amazed at how the school look the entrance itself was beautiful, then after walking into the school's courtyard he was left breathless because he never saw a school quite like this before. After spending half a hour walking around trying to find the school's principal's office he decided he would ask one of the students where the principal's office was located. He asked the first person he saw, she looked around thirteen with bright pink hair and slightly pink clothing, she said "Hello" in perfect English which surprised Erik very much because they are after all in France and she is only around thirteen. Erik introduced himself and asked what the girls name was, as politely as he could; she said that her name was Aelita. Erik said "Hello Aelita I am looking for the principal's office. Could you show me where it is?" Aelita's reply was a simple sure follow me. Erik felt really dumb when she shown him the door because he passed that very door twice. Before entering Erik asked Aelita what the principal's name was and she said it was Jean-Pierre Delmas. Erik thanked her for her help and said to have a good day and watched as she left before walking into the room.

Erik asked the secretary at the front desk if he could speak to Principal Delmas and was told to wait that he was with a student at the moment, so Erik took a seat and waited, fifteen minutes passed and the door opened and a student with blond hair and a purple streak in it walked out. Delmas asked the secretary if there was anyone else that was out there and she said that someone had arrived and wants to speak with him. Delmas said to come in and to take a seat so Erik did. Erik didn't waste any time and ask if Delmas knew who Franz Hopper was and what happened to him. Delmas was taken aback while he thought his reply was "Franz Hopper was a teacher here eleven years ago he taught science and one day he just vanished." When Erik asked what about his daughter Delmas was surprised saying "I didn't even know he had a daughter. Why do you want to know these things?" Erik said "My uncle had many letters from Hopper back in America, he disappeared sixteen years ago." Delmas asked if Erik thought that there was a connection and when Erik said that he wasn't sure ask if Hopper had a laboratory outside of the school, Delmas said he wasn't sure about that or not, Erik got up and said thank you for your time and have a good day and left thinking that he hit a dead end.

When he was leaving the main building he saw something that he wasn't expecting. Aelita as well as the boy with yellow hair and a purple streak and three others, none of whom look like they belonged together were running into the schools park. When Erik saw this he decided to follow them, since they are supposed to be in class by now according to Delmas the schools lunch hour is from eleven a.m. to twelve p.m. and it was pushing one thirty p.m., when Erik rounded a corner the kids had disappeared so he continued walking until he had heard a clank under his shoe. That clank was caused by his shoe hitting a sewer cap so he lifted it up and moved it to the side and started climbing down while putting the cover back on. He heard some skateboards rolling down the sewers so Erik followed the noise until he hit a dead end with three skateboards and two scooters stacked next to a ladder, so Erik climbed it to his left he saw Aelita jump and grab a rope so he hurried to the factory and got there just in time to see a freight elevator close and start going down. Erik decided quickly that he would go to the elevator and hit the buttons to go down, so he jumped and grabbed the rope and swung down making a not so graceful landing and hit the button. It took the elevator ten minutes to get to the top before he could get in and start heading down. When he finally got down the elevator stopped and opened to a room that had a super computer and at the controls was a boy, whom Erik guessed was around twelve or thirteen. When the boy turned he said into a headset "Guys Xana has made his move. Someone that I don't recognize is here he just came down from the elevator." Erik said "Hold on who is this Xana? And what in the world are you doing here?" The boy said "Well since you won't remember anyways my name is Jeremie Belpois, and Xana is an evil computer program that plans on taking over the world and we are the only defense against him." Erik says very surely "I don't think you are, I found a super computer just like this at my missing uncle's house in America."

Erik told Jeremie that he was going to be returning to America in a few weeks once he learns all he can about the connection Franz Hopper has with his uncle who went missing sixteen years ago. Jeremie said "Well since Xana didn't launch an attack here in the real world I guess a return is not all that necessary, but if you mention this to anyone we will have to launch an emergency return." Erik agreed that he would not tell anyone and asked if it would be okay to go through the computer to see if Hopper's diary may contain information about his uncle. Jeremie said "It would have to be put to a vote between all the members of the group to let you stay here alone." Aelita deactivated the tower in the mountain sector and the four that went in were being de-virtualized once everyone was in the computer room the vote was taken, surprisingly the outcome came to three votes yes two votes no. They finished introducing themselves and then the five of them left, leaving Erik alone in the lab.

After around an hour Erik had found a portion of information containing his uncle, it said that he had come to France to be virtualized into Lyoko, once Erik had read that he decided to try to figure out how to virtualize himself and talk to Xana in order to find out what happened to his uncle. Erik spent another half hour looking through Hopper's notes until he found what he was looking for, he set a timer for ten minutes so that he would have enough time to get into the scanner and he ran for a hatch in the left corner from the elevator, Erik got into the scanner and waited for three minutes to be virtualized. When landing onto Lyoko he was wearing a black leather chestplate and leather armour leggings and he had two side-by-side bladed swords. Erik was greeted by three Megatanks when they were about ready to fire at him he said "I want to talk to Xana." The Megatanks stood down and formed up around Erik and lead him to the edge of the desert sector where Xana sent the Lyoko transporter and Erik was transported to Sector five, when the doors opened around twenty Creepers were there to meet him they formed up around him and led Erik to the central tower where a Flying Manta arrived to take Erik to where he could enter the tower. When Erik entered Xana was there to greet him. Erik immediately recognized him as his missing uncle so he says the first thing that comes to his head "Hello Tony."

ok this next chapter may take a while to right because i really need to focus on classes so during my free time i will work on this. oh if you can think of anyone to possibly add to either Xana's side or the Lyoko Warrior's side let me know and i will consider it.