Roderick had Trig homework again; he quickly did it hoping to pull off at least a C-. He was more interested in preparing the next lesson for the kids; he could more or less envision the look on Devian's face when he would learn that they weren't a bunch of pushovers anymore.
Meanwhile Devian kept obsessing over the fact that those kids were using one of his old prototypes, he pulled out a Newspaper article that read, LOOK OUT S. HAWKING…MICHEL LENHOX RIGHT BEHIND YOU! And in some ways this article made him smile a bit, for it was true…next to S. Hawking, he Michel was extremely bright, but he didn't like to brag or show anyone how smart he was on a dare…for that was far beyond him.
Devian then started to reflect upon his past, he then came to the one article that he had feared to see: TRAGEDY STRIKES: LENHOX HEIR AND HEIRESS IN ACCIDENT, HEIR LOSES FOREARM…HEIRESS PAYS WITH HER LIFE. He then pulled out a bracelet, he remembered that she had made it for him a week before the accident. Once they were both of age, they were both going to control the family Software Company together.
He then heard a knock on the door and heard Sabrina ask, "Michel, what are you doing in there?" Michel quickly hid the stuff and replied, "Come in."
Sabrina looked at him and asked, "What's wrong…you look troubled by something?"
Michel looked at her and told himself, "You've been holding this off for a year and a half now…you have to tell her now!" But what he said was, "I'm going to go out for a bit…I'll be back shortly." He grabbed a hard floppy and disappeared out the door.
Michel went walking down the street next to the river, there he saw the factory and said to himself, "Time to face my demons." He entered to factory and then saw the elevator, "Please let this be a dream, please let it not be there?" He begged himself, but inside he knew it would be. He entered the elevator, at first he didn't remember the access code…but then it hit him, he didn't stop at the computer room…he went into the scanner room, and opened the hatch in the center of the room. "You're down here, my mistake, my curse, my personal Frankenstein." When he made it to the bottom he saw the glowing pool, he knew that it was here he would see his folly once more. He then flipped the switch and watched the tower of electronic casing and circuits rise out of the pool, on the front of it he saw the mark of the monster he had created and muttered, "Xana."
He put the disk into a mini-hacker he had brought with him and scanned the files until he found what he was looking for, "Heh, Heh, Hee…those kids aren't going to like me much longer."
When he was finished he quickly submerged the computer again and left the factory.