Chapter 2: The Attacks

Author's note: Yumi is a boarder at Kadic, even though her parents still live nearby.

Disclaimer: Digimon belongs to Bandai and Toe. Code Lyoko belongs to Moonscoop. I only own the plot.

*Music plays as Ken and Wormmon pop out of the computer screen*

Ken was lying face-down on the floor with Wormmon on top of him. "Still haven't gotten used to the landing..." he said sitting up.

"You'll get it eventually, Ken," Wormmon said, hopping off his back. "In the mean time, let's go see what your mom made for dinner. Digivolving to Stingmon really makes me hungry. I could go for some nice curry right about now."

"How'd you know that's what I made, Wormmon?" Mrs. Ichijouji asked as she walked in. "I heard you come out of the computer and came up to tell you dinner is ready."

"Do you have some kind of sixth sense for my mom's cooking? You did the same thing last week."

"Who knows? Either way, digivolving makes digimon hungry, so let's go eat."

"Alright, calm down you two." Mrs. Ichijouji said, smiling. She was glad that Ken had such a good friend who was willing to come all the way to France with him.

After being well fed, the two went to sleep so they'd be well rested when they got to Kadic the next day. Tomorrow was Sunday and since there was no school, they could explore the grounds and find places for Wormmon to hide.

The young Digi-destined and digimon woke up early the next day. Ken's luggage that would be taken to Kadic was still packed from the night before and was loaded in the car, save for a small bag with his digivice, his laptop, his D-terminal, a water bottle, their breakfast, and Wormmon.

They arrived at Kadic around ten o'clock that same morning. Ken's Parents dropped them off and Ken was taken to the principals office by a boy named Theo. After talking to Mr. Delmas for a while, Ken was given his schedule and room key, as well as a handbook with all the school rules.

"So what's your room number, Ken?" Wormmon asked, coming out of the bag and riding on Ken's shoulder.

"Room number 213. Let's go put away our stuff. Then we'll explore the campus," Ken replied, pulling the key out of his pocket.

The two went up to the second level of the school building and found their room. Just as Ken was about to put in the key, the door opened from the other side. The boy on the other side of the door had blond hair and was wearing a red turtleneck, brown cargo pants, and a pair of round glassed was slowly sliding off his face, causing him to push them back into place.

"Oh, sorry," the blond apologized as he tried to move around Ken.

"It's alright," Ken replied. "Is this your room?"

The blond stopped and replied, "Yes. Why?"

"Because I guess that means we're roommates. I'm Ken Ichijouji. I just moved here from Japan."

"Oh. Well, nice to meet you Ken. I'm Jeremie Belpois. Why don't I help you unpack and then I'll introduce you to my friends?" Jeremie offered.

"Sure."

Jeremie helped Ken unpack and when they were finished, it was time for lunch.

"Let's go down to the cafeteria. And be careful around my friend Odd. He'll do whatever he can to get extra food."

The two headed down to the cafeteria. Ken could hear someone shouting, "YES! I just LOVE meatballs and gravy!"

"And that would be Odd," Jeremie told Ken. "He'll be the one with the spiky hair and the purple spot in it."

They sat down at a table with four others already there. Ken looked at the others. There was one kid with purple clothes, and spiky blond hair with a purple dot. Ken assumed this was Odd. sitting next to him was a boy with brown hair who was wearing green pants, a tan shirt, and an army-green jacket. Jeremie sat down next to a girl with pink hair dressed a dark pink dress over a light pink hooded shirt. The fourth person at the table was a Japanese girl with black hair and a black outfit. She looked familiar to him, but he figured it was just because she was Japanese and he'd seen mostly French people, aside from his parents.

"These are my friends. The with the hair spike is Odd Della-Robia, the one with the indifferent look is Ulrich Stern, the pink-haired girl is Aelita Stones, and the Japanese girl is Yumi Ishiama."

Why does that name sound so familiar to me? Ken thought to himself.

"And guys, this is my new roommate, Ken Ichijouji."

Yumi's eyes grew wide at the sound of his name. "Ken Ichijouji?"

"Yes," Ken replied.

"Where are you from?" Yumi sounded a little suspicious, but Ken answered anyway.

"Tamachi, Japan."

"Do you have any siblings?"

"My brother, Sam, died a few years ago," he said sadly.

"Do you have a favorite sport?"

"Soccer. I was actually my old school's soccer star."

"I knew it! Your the same Ken that was my friend when I was growing up in Japan, but then I had to move to France."

"That's why your name sounded familiar. How's Hiroki doing?"

"As much of an annoying brat as ever."

Ulrich cleared his throat, reminding the two that they were still with everyone else. "You can reminisce later, but for now, stick to French." The two Japanese blushed, not realising they had suddenly started speaking Japanese.

Just then, Ken's cell phone rang. He took it out, looked at the number, and stood up. "Excuse me. I need to take this." He walked out of the cafeteria and started speaking. "Yeah, Davis?"

"Trouble! Three megas! We need Imperialdramon and fast!"

"I'm coming." He hung up, ran to a nearby tool-shed, and blocked the door with a rake. He took his laptop out of his bag and opened the digi-port. "Ready, Wormmon?"

"Yes, Ken!"

"Digi-port, Open!"

*Music plays as light pulls them into the screen and pops them out of the television in the near Digi-China Town*

"Come on, Wormmon!" Ken called to his partner.

"Right!"

"Wormmon, digivolove to... Stingmon!"

"Let's hurry!"

A few minutes later, they joined the others a ways away from the town. Silphymon, Shakkoumon, and Exveemon were fighting against a Grankuwagamon, a Kingetemon, and a Crusadermon. The two ultimates and champion were putting up a good fight, but were still losing.

"Spiking Strike!" Stingmon called out, stabbing Crusadermon to get it away from Exveemon.

"Need a hand?" Ken asked sarcastically.

"Sure do!" Davis replied. "Let's do this!"

"Exveemon... Stingmon... DNA digivolveto... Paildramon"

"Paildramon, mega-digivolve to... Imperialdramon"

"Imperialdramon, mode change to... Fighter Mode"

"Alright, guys!" Davis called to the digimon. "Altogether now!"

"Positron Laser!"

"Static Force!"

"Justice Beam!"

The three attacks combined into one devastating blast, reverting all three digimon beck into digi-eggs. Imperialdramon, Silphymon, and Shakkoumon all de-digivolved back into Chibomon, Leafmon, Poromon, Salamon, Tsubumon, and Tokomon.

"Great job guys!" Ken said as they walked over and picked up their respective digimon.

"So, Ken. How's France so far?" Cody asked, moving Tsubumon to his head.

"Pretty good. Oh yeah! I still need to finish my lunch. See you guys later. And don't worry, Leafmon. I'll bring you something too."

Meanwhile, with the Lyoko Warriors...

"Now that he's not in here, what are we going to do about X.A.N.A.?" Odd said. His attacks are getting more frequent and we won't be able to meet about Lyoko in your room with him there."

"Can we trust him with the secret?" Ulrich asked.

"Ken was always the one to go to when you needed to get something off your chest when we were kids. I think we can trust him. If we can't, we can just do a jump to the past to make him forget."

"Alright, we'll vote later," Jeremie said. "For now, we keep it a secret."

"Here he comes!" Yumi whispered. "Odd, tell one of your lame jokes."

"Okay. Did you hear about the dog that Sissi found the other day? She tried to take it home, but when she told it to come, it peed on her shoe!" Odd burst out laughing while the others just looked at him like he was crazy.

Ken, hearing the joke, sat down and asked, "Who's Sissi?"

"The girl in pink over there," Odd pointed to where Sissi, Herve, and Nicholas were sitting, "and also the principal's daughter. She's also annoying and obsessed with Ulrich."

"Unfortunately," Ulrich sighed. "Hope that you never have to pretend to go out with her because she blackmails you. It is a nightmare!"

"What'd she do to blackmail you?" Ken asked.

"That's... un-sayable," Yumi said, blushing. "Let's just say you don't want to read Sissi's diary."

"Okay then. I need to go. I need to talk to an old friend." Ken put something from his lunch in a bag and went to leave, only to be stopped by the door suddenly slamming shut! Someone tried to open the door, but got electrocuted as soon as he touched the handle. A nearby electrical socket started to spark as black smoke came out of it.

"X.A.N.A.!" Jeremie, Aelita, Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi all said at once.

Announcer: Why can't anyone escape? What do Jeremie and his friends know about this? Find out next time on The Lyoko-Destined!

Author's note: A little lengthy, I know, but necessary to the plot. Sorry about the cliffhanger, but it was getting TOO long.