For anyone who has not seen Garage Kids, go watch it now. YouTube has it. MegaVideo, Veoh, and Daily Motion probably have it too. Go watch it. Anyone who can guess who the person in the second scene is supposed to be (and no, it's not some version of God) gets to make a request (and if multiple people give me contradicting requests… I have no idea.). Same to anyone who helps me with a better title/summary.

Note: I think I might have fudged the CL timeline a bit here. This is after William was freed, but before the Kolossus was destroyed. At the point when XANA possesses William to disable the scanners.

Garage Kids

Chapter 1

byLanHikari2000x

"Odd! Watch out!"

Odd looked up, then quickly back flipped out of the way, barely avoiding being crushed by the Kolossus' foot. "Thanks Aelita!"

"Be careful Odd!" came Jeremie's voice, "William just disabled your scanner! If you get devirtualized now…"

"Got it Einst…ein… Now that's just embarrassing." A Blok had just frozen his feet in place, and was now charging up a trio of fire rings. "Sorry Jeremie, I guess you guys are gonna have to do this without me."

"Odd!" Jeremie shouted, but he couldn't do anything as the Blok released the attack and destroyed Odd.

(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)

Several planes of existence away, a cloaked figure was watching evens fold out through vaguely mystical means.

"Hm... that's not right…"

HE held a glowing hand up to the floating display and the view cleared, to be replaced by a scene of a blond boy stepping off a bus.

"There. I DID IT!" He paused, then seemed to deflate a bit in realization and started to walk off. "Right, back to those self-help classes…"

(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)

Odd stepped off the bus, looking around at his new school. In his arms was his dog, Kiwi. He shifted his bag on his back and started through the gate and into the school proper.

As he walked though the school yard, he couldn't help seeing all the groups scattered around the yard and feeling a bit homesick for his friends back at his old school.

He sighed and picked someone – a boy sitting alone in a bench working on a laptop – to ask for help.

"Hey," he started a bit nervously. The boy looked up. "Could you show me where the principal's office is?"

The boy nodded and closed his laptop. "Sure." Getting up, he called out, "Ulrich, Yumi! I'm going to show the new kid around." He started to walk away and motioned for Odd to follow him.

Odd raised an eyebrow, "'The new kid?'"

"Well you are, aren't you?"

Odd shrugged, "True. Thanks for the help by the way, my name's Odd."

"I'm Jeremie. Come one, there are a few things you should know to survive around here…"

TBC

And that's all I got now. Why do I seem to have a thing for killing off Odd right at the beginning of my Code Lyoko fics?

PS: kittyclaw, I think I thought of a better secondary for Ulrich: random, temporary intangibility.