After school
"See you Monday, Yumi!" Ulrich told her as she left. It was going to be a long weekend. Yumi was going with her parents on a weekend trip to visit her aunt. Aelita and Jeremy spent all day and night down in the factory working on something. Odd was trying to find his homework that he was supposed to turn in today, to avoid a detention. Verdana…well, he had no idea where she would be, or what she was doing. Ulrich was lost in these thoughts as a boy walked up to him and tapped him on the shoulder. The boy was blonde with pale skin and pale blue eyes. Ulrich started when he felt the hand on his shoulder. "Excuse me, I'm Jordan Feeny. I'm new here, and I was wondering if you could show me around." Jordan said. Ulrich asked him what his room number was. "I'll take you to your room so you don't have to carry that bag all over the place with you, then we'll go on a tour of the grounds." Jordan nodded and told Ulrich his room number. Once they arrived, Jordan threw his bag on the bed, and something fell out. Hastily, he swept it back in, but not before Ulrich had seen what was on it. It was X.A.N.A.'s symbol. "I've just remembered, I have some homework left to do, I'll show you around after dinner." Ulrich said as an excuse. He ran to his room and told Odd everything he had found out. "I found my paper and turned it in. We should probably do some reconnaissance on him." Odd said. At dinner, Ulrich and Odd saw Jordan talking with Sissy. "Do you want to be part of my group? I saw you hanging out with my Ulrich darling." she was telling him. "Sissy seems to be playing it up a bit. Maybe you should talk to her and put it straight." Odd said loudly. Sissy heard and glared at Odd. "Hey Jordan, are we still on for after dinner?" Ulrich asked. "Yeah, um…where shall we meet?" "I'll see you by the gates, after you are done eating." Ulrich replied.
At the gates
"Okay Jordan, spill. Do you know who's symbol that is?" Odd said in his best shot at an interrogator's voice. "Fine. It's X.A.N.A.'s. Here's the thing, I'm not supposed to exist. I was a glitch in the system that created Indevrigo. I am her opposite and her equal. I'm both good and bad at the same time. It depends on where I am. I was taken over by X.A.N.A. a long time ago. He wants me to do most of his work on earth for him. Sometimes he has a strong hold on me and sometimes he has no hold on me. Indevrigo is my only hope for getting rid of him. He also wants her for-" Suddenly he froze, his mouth open. His fingers twitched involuntarily. "Ggggoooo!" he exclaimed, sounding like a C.D. that was skipping. They ran off without looking back.
Back in the dormitory
"That was close! If he hadn't been able to warn us, I'm sure we would have be hurt or killed." Odd was saying. Ulrich wasn't paying attention, he was worried about the others. "What about Jeremy and Aelita, They're still out there and if Jordan is being controlled by X.A.N.A., then he knows where the factory is!" Ulrich said. "We had better look in their rooms first." Odd said for once keeping a cool head at a time like this. They cautiously opened the door to Jeremy's room. They gave a sigh when they saw that Jeremy and Aelita were both looking at something on the laptop. "Is that an e-mail from who I think it is?" Odd said. "Yep, it's an e-mail from X.A.N.A." Jeremy told Ulrich and Odd. "I think we should go tell Verdana, seeing as it concerns her the most." Aelita said. "How'd you guys find out about Jordan trying to attack all of us?" Ulrich asked the question that had be bugging him for a ling time. "Verdana saw you all outside from her room. She sent me and Aelita an text that told us to get out of the factory right away. We trusted her and left. When we came back there was this e-mail from X.A.N.A. Then you showed up." Jeremy told them. They left the room. None of them saw the dark figure enter the room.
In Verdana's room
Verdana sat at her desk surrounded with books. She had her laptop out and was taking notes on something. Hmmmm. That might do something. It's so simple that he'll never think about it. she thought. "u-huh…move this here…do this…type the code…and done!" she mumbled under her breath. She saved the file and closed it. Then she opened a game and started to play. This was how the others found her when they went to see her. As they were telling her about the email, she was wondering about something. What is X.A.N.A. up to? Why me?
Still need someone to beta me!