"What are you working on daddy?" A small four year old pink haired little girl asked
The man looked over at the little the girl standing on her tippy toes trying to sneak a peak at his work. With a smile on his face, the man pick her up and sat her on his lap.
"This is a friend for you to play with in our world, so you won't be alone." He answered
"Does it have a name?" the little girl asked staring at it.
"Well it's not completed yet, but if you have any ideas I'm willing to listen." He said
She stared at the sketch of a small creature; it had three legs, a red circle under its head, and spikes on the back of its head like a little hair style.
"How about...Roachsters?" The little girl ask looking at her father.
"Roachsters huh?..., he said while thinking it over while rubbing under his chin, "I love it!" He happily said
The little girl's eyes lit up with excitement hearing her father approve of the name, as a matter of fact he loved the name so much that he titled the sketch with it, justed as a huge gust of wind blew the papers off the desk.
" How about some lunch?" He asked glancing over at the papers on the floor.
"Yeah, but what about the mess?" She asked
"You let me worry about that princess, and I'll meet you in the kitchen." He said with a slight worried tone.
"Ok daddy." She said happily skipping into the kitchen.
The man leaned down to pick up the papers, but the sketches were gone all of them; the block, the manta, the rochesters and many more were replaced with a symbol, that blinked on and off the paper until it finally appeared in bold.
"XANA!" Aelita yelled waking up out of her sleep, looking around the room.
A few hours later outside in the woods, Mrs. Hertz was giving out direction for the project.
"Alright, class this is day two of our animals and habitats project, so everybody get with their assigned partners and get to work." Mrs. Hertz said
Aelita quickly yawned making her way over to Jeremy, who was looking at a bumblebee return to its hive.
"Hey Aelita, you look restless." Jeremy said looking at her a little worried.
"Yeah, I didn't get much sleep last night." Aelita said rubbing her eyes
"Maybe I should take care of the project, while you get some rest." Jeremy offered
"No Jeremy, this is my responsibility to get some work done on this project too." Aelita argued.
"Maybe you should let Einstein take over the project." Odd said walking up on the side of them with binoculars around his shoulders.
"Yeah the faster he gets done with your project the faster he can start on ours." Ulrich said holding a bag of bird food.
"Unbelievable, even with the easiest animal you guys still want Jeremy to do your work for you." Yumi said coming up beside Ulrich with William copy beside her.
"Hey it's not easy finding Blue Jays during migrating season. " Odd said looking through binoculars at trees.
"And every time I lay out bird food Kiwi comes out of nowhere and eats it off the ground." Ulrich said throwing food on the ground.
A few seconds after Ulrich thew the food on the ground Kiwi came hoping out of his hiding spot and started eating the seeds
"Well can you blame the guy?" Odd said looking at Kiwi in front of him.
"Haven't you guys ever heard of a bird feeder." William asked.
"A what?" Both Ulrich and Odd asked at the same time.
"A bird feeder, you put bird seeds into it and hang it up where only birds can get to it." Yumi broke down in the simplest way possible.
"That's how we got done." William said holding up pictures of the white owl.
"Wow that's amazing." Aelita said looking over the pictures
"That's what I said William staked out for three nights in a row to get those shots, he's a great partner. " Yumi said
"It was nothing. " William said rubbing the back of his neck with a slight grin and blush, which caused Ulrich to get jealous.
"Odd can you help me out over here?" Jeremy asked
"Sure thing," Odd said walking over, "What do you need.?" He asked
"I need you to get a simple of the hive." Jeremy said passing Odd a jar.
"Like what...honey?" Odd asked taking the jar.
Jeremy nodded and before he could warn Odd that the hive was full, Odd was already have half up the tree.
"Be careful Odd." Ulrich yelled.
"Be..What?" Odd said before falling down with the hive in his hand mashing it over William's head.
"ODD YOU IDIOT!" William yelled racing to get away from the bees with Yumi following up behind him
"Nice going Odd." Ulrich said helping him up to his feet, trying to pull leaves off him.
"Yeah Odd, this is Perfect! " Jeremy said picking up pieces of the hive
"Well what can I say I'm a one man wreaking crew." Odd said jokingly.
Aelita laughed while Jeremy getting pieces of the hive together. After class was over everybody had to show Mrs. Hertz want they had so far. William was covered in bee stings and water while Yumi was just covered in water, both managed to still have their pictures intact. Aelita and Jeremy had samples of the honey, the bee hive , and, thanks to Odd and William, bee stings. Mean while Odd and Ulrich are at risk of failing if they don't come up with something by the end of the week.
A few class periods later everybody regrouped at lunch
"I can't believe it, WE are at risk of been kicked out." Odd said.
"Well we are until we can find something about this bird we're in deep trouble. " Ulrich said grabbing a tray of food.
"Yeah tell me something I don't know." Odd said
"Xana is attacking a tower." Jeremy said.
"Now?" Odd asked.
"Yes, Odd now." Jeremy said in a serious tone.
"Just my luck." Odd said wolfing down his food taking his like its the last meal he'll ever get.
"Come on " Ulrich said pulling Odd out of his seat.
Everybody raced to the factory, made their way to their stations and stepped into the scanners while Jeremy made his way to the super computer.
"Alright is everybody ready?" Jeremy asked over the intercom
"Ready Jeremy" Aelita said.
"All set" Yumi said
"We're good here." Ulrich said
"Can we get this over with Einstein, I gotta get back to that puddling." Odd said.
One by one Jeremy scan everybody and virtualized them into Lyoko only to noticed that Xana hasn't attacked the real world...Something was wrong