[Upon those words coming out of Atlas's mouth Jeremy choked up. So many thoughts went through his head, as he tried to calm down.]

[Finally after about half an hour Jeremy could speak again.] Your joking, right? [One look at Atlas's face told Jeremy he was not joking.]

[As the seconds turned into minutes Atlas spoke, each word coming from his mouth like water.] Aelita can't know about this yet Jeremy. I can't deal with it right now so please don't tell anyone about it OK?

[Atlas had the feeling he made a mistake telling Jeremy the truth. But as the time went by Atlas could feel that he made the right decision.]

[Slowly the truth seeped into Jeremy. The part of the diary of Franz claiming to discover the return to the past feature started to make sense. The invention of virtualization was years ahead of there time, even Franz would have a problem figuring it out alone.]

[Atlas had the feeling that Jeremy would like to tell his friends, so he told Jeremy an idea of his.] Jeremy if you must tell you friends than parts of the truth must be covered. Tell them if you must that I was helping Franz out on the Lyoko project, but an accident happened. As a result I was frozen for a long time in the attic of the Hermitage.

[Jeremy was quiet letting it all sink in. Atlas's story was believable, and it was some of the truth. As far as Jeremy was concerned it was the truth, but Ulrich would catch on its a lie so Jeremy spoke up.] That's a good story Atlas, but Ulrich wont believe you.

[Jeremy could not think straight, because of all the new questions that kept popping up in his head. How much did Atlas know, but the biggest thing that was hard for him to believe is he was talking to the son of Franz Hopper.]

[Jeremy wanted proof about this so he asked a question.] If you are really the son of Franz Hopper than what is his real name?

[Atlas smiled before he answered.] His real name is Waldo Franz Schaeffer. He worked on project Carthage, but over time he realized that it was dangerous, so he created Lyoko to destroy it. At least that's what I think, but it could be that many people wanted to hurt him to. Anyways Hopper was the last name of mine and Aelita's mom, or Anthea as her first name would turn out to be.

[Jeremy just sat there dumbstruck at what he was hearing. Some of it was spoken during the trip to the new Lyoko, but most of it was never even spoken of in his group of friends. Atlas jolted Jeremy out of his thoughts by popping a question.] So Jeremy because of the whole secret thing when do you want to tell Ulrich?

[Jeremy got up and spoke an instant later.] Ill send him a text right now, hopefully he isn't doing anything important.

[Ulrich wasn't doing anything important, just trying to get away from Odd and Kiwi. So when he got the text from Jeremy asking him to come to his room he went straight there. Upon entering the room He noticed Atlas was sitting on his be and Jeremy was sitting on his computer typing away.]

[Upon Ulrich entering the room Atlas pressed a button on his laptop, and Jeremy fell on his back screaming in pain. When he got up he turned around and spoke.] What was that for, and how did you do it?

[Atlas just threw his notebook at Jeremy and pointed at Ulrich. Jeremy looked at a page nodded than picked up his chair and threw the notebook back at Atlas who cot it. Finally Atlas spoke when Ulrich closed the door.] Ulrich I was talking to Jeremy and thanks to him I decide to tell you the truth n who I am.

[Ulrich sat down on Jeremy's bed listening to everything Atlas said. After the same questions that Jeremy asked came up Ulrich was convinced. Than Jeremy spoke up with news that surprised all three of them.] I did some research and as it turns out you don't seem to exist Atlas, but when I dug deeper it turns out that someone tried to erase your identity from every computer on the planet. Yet some of the pictures have been photo shopped in order to hide you from, well pretty much everyone.

[Atlas looked confused, and surprised that someone or something tried to erase him. But it was getting late so the three went to supper. The group was there except Yumi who had dinner with her family. Odd talked about his purple spot, which surprised Atlas as it turned out to be part of Odd's hair. Atlas even spoke on how there could be multiple AI's on the many unexplored sector each with a different color to represent them.]

[Jeremy spoke of computers who despite being smart really got bored just listening to it. Aelita told Atlas about her father, which led up to the point where Atlas told them to meat him by the tree he sat down under when he got there yesterday. But when asked he just said that everything will be revealed when they do.]

[After that everyone went on there own business until they went to bed.]

[In the morning everyone went to class, and quickly Atlas proved to be just as smart as Jeremy. He proved to also be a good athlete, as he quickly became the favorite of Jim. Also he was quite good at making jokes which made Odd a bit mad. As break came everyone went to the tree that Atlas spoke of. Yumi was the first one there being told by Ulrich that they were meeting there.]

[Upon her arrival she saw Atlas waiting there, and after a quick greeting she asked a question.] So what is this all about Atlas?

[He just said one word which was all it took to get her attention.] Hopper.

[Soon everyone arrived Jeremy spoke.] Everyone meet the assistant of Franz Hopper. He helped to create the Lyoko we know about today, and countless others.

[Everyone was quiet until Atlas spoke.] If any of you are wondering how that's possible I can tell you that Waldo created the Lyoko you know. All I did was build the scanners and the return to the past feature. Also I built the other Lyoko, and when I tested the return to the past feature an accident occurred, as a result it created a type of cryogenic pod. How I survived is still a question to me, but I try not to think about it much.

[Aelita spoke up trying to figure out some things] So is that why you came to our house, to build the prototype Lyoko?

[Atlas just nodded and than spoke again.] It may not be a good time, but you must know that you have a brother Aelita.

[The look on everyone's face was something else and Aelita was the most surprised.] I... I have a brother?