This story is doing good so far. However, there were no dialogue in the last chapter, so I would like same feedback on the characters in this chapter and tell me if I captured them perfectly, close, or not.


"Hey Belpois! You there!" Ulrich yelled, but not too much to alert Jim.

Jim Morales is not only the Physical Education teacher, but is also the campus advisor, a very strict one, and does a good job on both accounts despite appearing to be dimwitted. Even if he did get caught, Jim would just give him a warning and a pat on the back since Ulrich is undoubtedly the best soccer player, which Jim greatly respects him for.

Jeremie Belpois is another Kadic student who shares the same classes as Ulrich and is younger by a couple of months. Belpois is basically an almost total opposite to Stern. Instead of excelling in anything physical, he makes it up in all of the other academic classes, especially in both math and science. He has straight A's in all of his class, except for PE where he has a C-.

The blonde genius is not very social and tends to avoid the other students so he could spend more time on working on his computer and build robots that do simple jobs like fetch a ball. Other than ignoring friendly invites from others, Jeremie is in good terms with everyone on campus, except for a couple of two boys, namely Herb and Nicholas.

Herb Pichon is second to Jeremie in terms of grades, which is the very reason the other genius students hates him for. He always tried to best him in anything, but always fail in the end, even in PE. Nicholas Poliakoff is Pichon's only friend in Kadic and follows him because Herb is the only friend he could make since many of the other students avoid him. One reason is because Nicholas always stares off into space and appear brain dead, which people finds weird. Also, he would use any excuse to get into a fight. The two always bullied Jeremie when they have the chance since the 7th grade, but the bullying stopped when Ulrich saved him one day. All it took was a couple of punches and two no longer messed with Jeremie.

The two bullies were going to rat Ulrich out on attacking them since physical assault is strictly against school rules, even if it was self defense. Thankfully, however, they kept their mouth shut thanks to William's threat.

Ulrich and Jeremie are not exactly friends, more like acquaintances since they rarely see each other outside of classes. There were times when the bespectacled boy tutored him, but that was only when Ulrich was desperate to get a good grade on a test since, to Ulrich, William and pretty much anyone in their age range, Jeremie speaks in an alien language when they have a study session. Ulrich also has tutored him, in PE of course. Jeremie sometimes lets Ulrich help test out his robots, which the male brunette finds to be fun.

"Hello, Stern." Jeremie greeted awkwardly. He noticed the subtle hints of anger on his acquaintance. "Is something the matter?"

"Yeah."

"I heard you got a new roommate. Is he a problem?"

"You have no idea."

Jeremie step to the side and gestured him into his room, "Well then, come on in."

Ulrich has slept in Jeremie's dorm room a couple of times in the past, mostly because his ex-roommate sometimes snores at night or when the two pull an all-nighter on studying. Ulrich looked around to see that Jeremie is a neat freak as ever, the only thing in the room that can be considered a mess are the robot parts, which were still neatly organized in way so Jeremie will not misplace any parts.

Jeremie went back to his desk, where he seems to be designing another gizmo while the athlete picks up a remote controller. The controller operates one of Jeremie's gizmos, which has wheels and a mechanical arm that can grab and hold onto stuff, preferably a small ball. Ulrich has taken a liking to this one after testing it the first time, mostly because it almost looks like a car and can control it like a toy version.

"So," Ulrich started as he made the robot move around the room and occasionally made the arm move. "What are you doing?"

"Right now, I'm making the designs for a robot that can play basketball." Jeremie said as he went over the designs.

Ulrich smirked, "Sounds fun...and challenging. I know you're the best in the whole school when it comes to computers, but can you really make something like that?"

"I'd have to if I want to win that competition" Jeremie did not need to turn around to see Ulrich's confused face. "A couple of weeks ago, Mr. Delmas told me personally that the school will be hosting a robot competition in a couple of months. The competition will be officially announced a week from now during class, by the way."

"Cool. I'm definitely not going to miss that." Ulrich said with a bit of enthusiasm. "You'll win for sure."

Jeremie smiled a little from the encouragement. His classmate may not bright as him, but he admires Ulrich's strength and determination and appreciates the time he defended him and the times he helped him shape up, so that Jim will be less hard on him in PE. He will not disappoint him.

After a long silent moment, Jeremie sighed loudly in frustration as he crumbled up the design and threw it into the trash bin. Ulrich noticed the small mountain formation of crumbled up paper.

"Something the matter?" He asked. Jeremie was about to explain, but Ulrich cut him off first to say, "In layman's term, please."

Ulrich has been trying to teach Jeremie to dumb down his complicated explanation so their tutoring session would be easier and also, not known by Jeremie, so the blonde genius can communicate better without sounding like a nerdy alien.

Belpois blush a little, "Nothing's wrong, it's just that I have limited parts."

"Can't you just disassemble some of your other robots for parts?"

Jeremie shakes his head, "They are not the right parts I'm looking for and I have been trying to see if I can make a operative and effective robot with the parts that I do have, but so far I have been coming up short."

"How about you buy the parts?"

"I thought of that, but the stores in town either don't have the parts that I'm looking for or too expensive for me buy. I also tried buying them online, but they would be delivered here too late for the competition."

Ulrich put a hand under his chin, "There has to be some other way."

Jeremie thought alongside him until an idea popped up.

"I could go there...no, no, no. Forget it."

The male brunette looks at him, "What are you talking about?" He noticed how Jeremie got quiet soon after. "Come on, you can tell me."

Jeremie thought about it for a second and was reluctant, but Ulrich's gaze on him wore him down.

"You may find this weird, but I found this manhole cover."

Ulrich raises an eyebrow, "How is that weird exactly?"

"It's weird because I found it in the middle of the woods."

"Okay, that does sound weird." Ulrich admitted. Usually you would find one in the middle of the streets. "Where are you going with this?"

"I was getting to that." Jeremie said. "I was getting so frustrated from parts that I was desperate enough to go down."

Ulrich stopped him right there as a small smirk formed.

"Wait, did that happen the day before you were absent all day?" He recalled that very incident that occurred around a week ago. "No wonder you smelled funny when I came to check on you." He chuckled.

Jeremie blush a little and rubbed the back of his head.

"W-well, that's what you get when you accidently fell into sewer water." He laughed with him before clearing his throat. "As I was saying, I was looking for parts when I came to this ladder that lead me to this abandoned factory."

"A factory?"

"Yes and when I came back from little adventure, I found out from the internet that it used to be a old car factory."

Ulrich smiled, "Then I betcha there's tons of parts left behind."

"Yeah, except the sign says that it's off limits." Jeremie warns him. "It'd be risky. Just forget about it, Stern."

His acquaintance ignored the warning and stand up.

"Sorry Belpois, but you made me interested in this robot competition, so I better make sure you win." He said bluntly. "And no doubt Pichon will be entering as well. Don't you want to stand against him for once in equal terms?"

Jeremie stuttered a bit as he said, "I-I do, but I... don't want to get into trouble."

Ulrich place a hand on his shoulder, "Relax, Belpois. You can leave that to me." He then grabs Jeremie's flashlight from the bookshelf. "So, where do I find this entrance."

"Are you sure you want to this, Stern?" Jeremie said as he got up with a worried look. "You could get in trouble with not just the school, but also with the authorities."

The brunette sighed, "Belpois, I've had a bad day today."

"Is it because of your new roommate or the new girl who beat in you pencak silat?" Ulrich gave him a look that made him regret ever asking. "It's near where the track field is."