Got stuck on my other story so I updated this one today. Spent days on this chapter and corrected grammar errors. I kind of found a few errors on the last chapter. Sorry for those but I type fast and sometimes I mix up words and letters. This chapter is just a fill in with Angelo and Hunter going into Kadic. Hope you like and please leave a review. I've been wondering if my story isn't good enough and that's why I don't receive any.


Chapter 9: Alien Academy

Jeremy's POV

It was early in the morning of Sunday. Yumi had passed by after breakfast to get Ulrich and go to the factory to meet up with Korran. I had to meet up with my cousins, Angelo and Hunter, at the gate. Aelita and I walked towards the gate to wait them up. Odd said he would go to sleep again while he could and William still hasn't showed up in all day what worries Aelita. Guess she still thinks he might go back to Xana after all.

We were at the gate and ten minutes later Angelo and Hunter were walking up the corner. Glad they didn't get lost through the net of streets. They nodded at me when they saw me.

"Is everything set?" Hunter asked.

I nodded, "Nervous? It's your first day on an alien academy," I said.

"You get used to it when you pass more than ten years trapped inside a supercomputer with your consciousness on the dead planet in the outside world," he said blankly and walked through the gates.

"He still hasn't gotten over the fact we lost so many people we loved," Angelo said when Hunter was out of hearing range. "Let's go. I want to get to my room to have a bit of sleep." We walked through the gates. Aelita never left my side. Hunter seemed to be slightly happy about the green around him. I don't think there is much green left on their planet.

Jim was over us the second he saw us. "These your cousins?" he beamed when he saw us.

I nodded nervously. "Y-yes Jim," I said. Should have known I would get this nervous. I would have probably made Yumi say these were her cousins. Would have been a lot easier for me.

Jim looked around as if waiting for someone else. "No adults?" he asked.

"We were sent here alone. Dad is this mad business man and we had no one to bring us here. We just took a plane and then a taxi brought us here," Angelo said. Obviously he had thought up the lie beforehand.

Jim nodded, "I'll take you to the office. The principal wants to have a word with you before anything," Jim said and led them to the building. Aelita and I stayed outside with the luggage.

"This is going on as planned," Aelita had a smile playing on her lips.

I smiled back. I still got a bit nervous when around her. The only time when I spoke with her and didn't feel nervous at all was when I was in front of the supercomputer's screen and she was on Lyoko. I always had that butterfly feeling when near her.

"Jeremy, are you okay?" she asked after studying my facial expression.

"Huh? Yeah, I was just thinking," I replied trying my best to act casual.

She giggled obviously not buying what I had said. "If you think so much about me you'll probably end up with permanent brain damage." I froze when she said that. Like if she had read my mind. She giggled again. "As I said, Jeremy, don't try to hide the fact you love me," she placed a kiss on my cheek and I felt all the blood of my body concentrate on my cheeks and I knew in that instant that I was blushing bright red. She grinned but did not giggle this time. "So sweet," she cooed.

I took a deep breath to stop my heart from racing but it would have come out by now if I wouldn't have been struggling to keep myself under control.

"Uh," I tried to find words to start a conversation but the nerves of the moment let my genius brain in blank. Damn, where is the brain when you need it?

Aelita broke into laughter and that made me blush violently now but it was more of shame than anything else. I felt myself get smaller as I shrunk in embarrassment. "Jeremy," Aelita took my hand now. "You are so shy. I wonder sometimes if you will ever build up the enough courage to kiss me," she said.

I guess that was a good idea or something because absentmindedly I moved myself towards her and our lips touched and fireworks were set somewhere like the 4th of July or New Year. I was instantly in a blaze of some emotion that I had never felt before and I didn't want to move from it but as soon as I remembered I was kissing Aelita in the middle of campus I pulled away, gently and slow.

Aelita was flabbergasted. She was looking at me as if I had committed a crime and I questioned myself if it was the right thing to kiss her just like that. "Uh, sorry," I finally said after a moment of silence.

"No," Aelita shook her head. She smiled, "It's okay, Jeremy, just wasn't expecting you to answer that soon and in that way," she giggled. I smirked. "You know, I've was always waiting to be materialized to give you a kiss."

I couldn't help but smile at her words. "And when you were you only gave me a hug," I reminded.

"I couldn't jump so quickly to that part. I was meeting you in real life for the first time. It was my first time seeing you whole rather than only your face and that turtleneck shirt of yours," she explained.

"What when you saw me on Lyoko?" I asked.

She looked at me in the eyes now. "I was caught off guard when you said you were coming to sector five. I could barely believe you were coming into Lyoko. You never do," she replied.

"How did I look?" I asked her.

"Handsome as always. I liked your cape and the combination of the colors. They looked good on you. And the elven look. Kind of attracted my attention the most," she responded sincerely.

I smiled widely now. "I spent lots of time customizing myself," I said.

"I can see that. You only came to Lyoko once to fight Xana's monsters eons ago just to make you strong in case he attacked you again and you looked nothing like you do now," she said. "You looked more like you do here on Earth but not now. Um, do you still have the dagger?"

I nodded, "I do. I just installed a few programs to control the supercomputer from Lyoko."

"Careful with the Skiphosoa," she reminded.

"I've been working on a program to prevent that monster to suck or implant information. That's actually mostly for William," I said.

"Where is he now?" she inquired.

"No clue."


William's POV

I woke up late. It was nine in the morning. I took my towel and walked my way to the bathroom. There was nobody there like every Sunday when I wake up. I took a shower and brushed my teeth before going back to my dorm. I put on some clean clothes and made my way out of the room. I wasn't planning on staying here for the whole day.

I walked out to the fresh air of the morning and looked around. I spotted Aelita and Jeremy in front of the doors that led to the office. There were two suit cases besides them so I guess Angelo and Hunter would be on the office now being lectured about school rules like they did to me when I came into the school.

Aelita smiled at me when I got to where they were. "I was worried you'd gone missing," she said.

I stretched and scratched the back of my head. "I always sleep late on Sundays," I replied.

"You missed breakfast," Jeremy said.

"You can get anything out of a vending machine," I justified myself. "Yumi and Ulrich? And Odd?"

"Odd's on sleeping duty and Ulrich and Yumi went with Korran to get him work," Aelita responded.

Jeremy nodded. "It gave me time enough to fix his documents enough to make the documents right for him."

I took a deep breath and sighed. "So then, there isn't an activated tower?"

Jeremy shook his head. "We are okay, for now," he said looking away at the trees. "Now we are fighting two different artificial intelligences."

"What if the both attack at the same moment? I mean, Aelita is one. Two towers activated on opposite sectors. How would we do with that?" I inquired.

Aelita sighed. "I do not know but we will have to find out then but for now we can be sure that everything is fine here."

"There aren't replikas still," Jeremy added. "That's a good sign."

I nodded understandingly but that wasn't my worry. It was going back to Xana's hands. Last time I destroyed Lyoko. What if I destroy the whole world if Xana takes me in? I shook my thoughts away. I wouldn't let that happen. I can't. I'm very gifted now with all of Xana's codes. I can use his own tricks against him.


Ulrich's POV

After telling Korran everything about life with work on Earth he was eager to find a work and wait for his first pay check. On Xohan he got paid daily but that wasn't like that here on this planet. At least not on this part of Earth.

We had gone to three different places. All of them construction sights because that was what Korran knew most about. After that we tried other works and he even had interviews in this same day. Guess people on those places did not have much to do today. Korran didn't have a phone so I gave him mine for the next few weeks in case he was called for work. That meant he would only be able to go to Lyoko during night if he wanted to have a call.

After we had gone everywhere Korran was frustrated. He said that normally he would find work on the same day even if he had to go to the next town to work. Yumi had to explain to him that this was different here. He understood but wasn't convinced.

"So what do we do now?" he asked.

"You look for work in the morning and even if we kept looking there isn't anything else you could do. The rest has to do a lot with math," Yumi explained.

"Bah, damn math. Why does it have to always be complicated for me?" Korran said in frustration.

I shook my head. "Don't worry, there are a million of other people who are thinking just like you and they don't come from another planet," I tried to cheer him up.

He nodded and let out a small smile. "Okay, but I need a work within the next few days."

"You will get it," Yumi said with a large smile.

Korran looked at the phone. "These things are out of date for me. We used watches on our planet. What do I push to answer?"

"The green button," I said.

"Red for hanging up?" he questioned. I nodded. He nodded back. "Okay, I believe that's all I need to know. Give Leiah the phone number just in case she needs something from me."

Yumi nodded, "I will."

"So where do we go now?" Korran asked.

"Uh," Yumi looked at me with a smile and I knew she was up to something. "Well I was curious to know what Eonor looks like," she said.

My mind when on a black out. I asked myself if I had heard correctly. I even got dizzy and the world span at high speed just once but enough to make me know that it was processing her words.

Korran stopped walking to look at her seriously. "Speak with Angelo and Hunter. They are the ones who will give you green card if they want you to go there. But I tell you. Eonor is a war zone. This Lyoko looks like heaven compared to that place. After the explosions Lexia had plenty of time to recover and keep attacking. She started making more monsters. The net is full of them and now the lands in Eonor. The monsters didn't attack us though," he said.

I frowned puzzled by his words. "What do you mean?"

"Lexia saw that there were no more of us left on our planet but us in the supercomputer so she stopped attacking. She had us as pets on Eonor. This is why she got mad at us when we left," Korran explained.

"So she wanted to keep you there?" Yumi asked.

Korran nodded, "As prisoners. Meiah was with us but then Lexia got hold of her. Hunter was in love with her but he never told her. He then regretted it when she was caught by Lexia. Lexia liked Meiah's ability to control flames. That was what attracted her to Meiah. I still remember the day," he sighed. "Let's go."


Aelita's POV

Jeremy and I stood up when Angelo and Hunter came out of the office. They came with Jim behind them. "Jeremy," Jim said. "I'll leave you to show the Kadic to your to your cousins," he walked away.

Jeremy was smiling now, "How was it?"

"We have our classes," Angelo handed us the sheet of paper with the list.

"We're on the same homeroom and the same program," William said as he scanned the paper. "And your room is next to mine," he added.

"Angelo and I will share the room then?" Hunter asked.

I nodded, "That's probably because they think you are brothers."

"The principal said something about fraternal twins when he was speaking and was asking about birth dates and stuff like that but we barely spoke. He was rambling about the rules of safety, drills and so on," Angelo said.

"Yeah, that stinks," William commented. I kind of had the same problem when I came here but the principal was more easygoing."

We walked the two boys to their dorm. It was right next to William's. There were two beds and a large desk two night tables and two closets. I believe it was more than enough for them to start their life here on Earth. Korran was already looking for a job and it hurt me because I knew that even though he looked like twenty he was only fifteen years old. Too young and already out at work to sustain his small family, or what was left of his family.

Jeremy's backpack started buzzing. He took out his laptop and looked at the screen. "Xana is on the move."

"Where?" I asked.

"Forest sector," he replied. "And, huh, another replika."


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