Chapter 14: Just a coincidence.
Location: Time Fluxuation, France
Ulrich sat down to his best friend Odd. Ms. Hertz quickly walked to the front of the class as the bell rang. "All right class, today we have a new student." She said. A boy walked into the room. He seemed strong but he was a little "wide" around the middle (A/N: for those of you who read my deleted scenes story while it was up, you should understand). He had a dark look in his eyes as he looked around the room. Eventually his deep blue eye's landed on Ulrich, Odd and Jeremy. "This is David; um…could you pronounce your last name?" Ms Hertz asked. David pulled his eyes away from Odd and the others.
"It's Clyoto, David Clyoto." Jeremy looked up in surprise.
"Very good, you may take your seat." David sat in the back of the room. Jeremy quickly turned to the others as Ms Hertz began the long lecture
"Clyoto…" He whispered "sounds too much like Lyoko to me."
"Jeez Jeremy you think you can give a guy 2 minutes before you go accusing him of something." Odd whispered back.
"It's just too convenient. And did you see how he stared at us like that? Look at him; he's not taking any notes."
"Well I don't take notes either." Odd said.
"Relax Jeremy." Ulrich said. "I'm sure it's just a big coincidence."
"Still, I'm going to check with Aileta after class, just to be sure." Jeremy said before turning around. David heard every word.
Jeremy pulled up his window on LYOKO. "Aileta are you there?" Aileta's face appeared on his screen.
"Hi Jeremy is something wrong?"
"No, but it might. Have you felt any pulsations?"
"No why?"
"Well this new boy at school showed up. His last name is Clyoto…and he stared at me and the others very intently."
"That is strange. It might be a coincidence, but I'll look around anyway." Aileta said.
"Good idea, I'll launch a scan just to be safe as well." Aileta disappeared and Jeremy launched his program. He spun around in his chair saw David looking down on him. "Uh, hello…"
"Save it Jeremy. Just to let you know I have nothing to do with X.A.N.A and yes, my name is a coincidence, in a way of speaking." Jeremy simply stared at him. Something beeped behind him. Jeremy quickly turned around to see that an activated tower had been found.
"Is that so…" Jeremy said as he slowly turned around.
"Coincidence. But that tower is not my origin. And if you're smart you'll call up your friends and tell them to meet you at the factory." David said. Jeremy stared at him darkly. Jeremy quickly pulled out his cell phone and called Odd.
"Odd, get the others and meet me at the factory." Without another word he hung up. "You can stay here. If you aren't X.A.N.A's doing then you'll understand." Suddenly a news report came up thanks to Jeremy's alert system.
Yumi walked down the street toward her house. She was about half way between the school and her house when she heard something peculiar. She circled around. Nothing was there, but the buzzing noise was still there. Instinctively she looked up. A small black dot moved across the sky, and then it turned and moved toward her. "Great, I'd love to be abducted by aliens." She joked. She blinked but the thing continued to move toward her. Soon she could make out the outlines of a helicopter…an army helicopter (A/N: weather the French use helicopters or not is beyond me). "What in the world?" It stopped at the end of the block, directly facing her. Despite the heavy winds she held her ground. It was then she noticed, the pilots chair was empty! She slowly tried to walk away, but before she could get her foot down, a bullet ricocheted off the ground where she was about to place it. Suddenly it all became clear to Yumi. "X.A.N.A…" she whispered.
"A government Helicopter has been stolen." The newscaster reported. "The culprit is still at large and police are requesting any information concerning the subject. The aircraft is fully armed with 10 full machine gun rounds, 8 seeker missiles, and other weapons the government would not tell us. There is also rumor that 3 gallons of napalm are stored. The craft is still in stages of development and is strictly for testing new weapons, but the craft is still dangerous. Report any information to the following information sources." As a list of phone numbers rolled down the screen, Jeremy turned toward David.
"Okay, you're off the hook…for now. But I'm watching you." He said.
"Either way, I'm coming to the factory with you. I already have an avatar set up. So what harm could it be to have someone else help you?" David said. Jeremy stared at him darkly. His phone rang and he quickly answered it.
"Hello"
"Jeremy, X.A.N.A's getting a lot smarter. He's trying to gun me down with this military helicopter." Suddenly the connection was cut, either by dropping it or worse. David's sensitive ears gave him a perfect edge.
"Looks like there's an open scanner for me." Jeremy gave up. He got up and headed for the door.
"You want to go to LYOKO, fine! Let's go."