Disclaimer:

I do not own Code Lyoko nor am I making a single cent with this piece of fanfiction. Also I do not have any ownership from all the various video game companies and anime studios that are referenced in this chapter.

Special Thanks:

Aiya, too many to count. If you guys came this far in reading my fic then you all deserve a hearty pat on the back and a big fat THANK YOU!


Intermission (Original Side Chapter): A Code Lyoko Halloween

Jin greedily gobbled up his simple breakfast of buttered toast and fruit before drinking the rest of the milk that remained in his glass. He smiled gleefully before setting down his cup and leaning back in his chair to relax for a few moments.

"You're up early" came his mother's voice from the kitchen's doorway which slightly startled the boy and almost made him fall back from his original position.

"AHH!" Jin screamed while trying to reclaim his balance. Once he was confident that he could rest the chair on two legs he turned his head toward his mother.

"Morning" he said cheerfully.

"Morning to you too Jin." Mrs. Ishiyama responded, matching her son's level of radiance. "Are you excited about today?"

"But of course. Hey mom, can I ask you a question?"

"Sure"

"If a number two pencil is the best pencil to use then why is it only number two?"

All the teachings of Confucius, Sun Tzu, Buddha and Taoism could not prepare Mrs. Ishiyama for Jin's completely random question.

"He's defiantly from his father's side" she thought to herself before she changed the subject. "You two have your costumes ready for today?"

"Yep, sis and I promised not tell each other what we're going as so it would be a surprise."

"That's good, speaking of your sister, is Yumi awake? School starts in half and hour and you two have yet to get dressed."

Yumi quietly emerged from the opposite doorway still wearing her pajamas and took a seat right next to Jin.

"Morning mom. Morning Aniki" she greeted the other occupants sleepily.

"Well I have to get to work soon so I'll be leaving soon. Have fun today ok?"

"Thanks mother" the twins answered in unison as they watched her leave.

Jin turned his head and faced his sister.

"You look sleepy today."

"Yes I am" Yumi said frankly. "Unlike you, us NORMAL people do not have the unique blend of caffeine, adrenaline and pure sugar running through our bloodstream. We take a tad wee longer to be fully in control of our bodies."

Jin completely ignored his sister's cheep shot to his character and continued to speak.

"Ready for Halloween?"

"Of course, I had my costume ready since last month."

"I got mine done a few weeks ago and it's a dozy."

"Not as much as mine Aniki. It will knock your socks off."

"Can't wait to see it."

"So Jin, got anything special planned for this year?"

"Yeah, me and the guys have been planning this really cool prank on Jim this year."

"Now that sounds fun." Yumi said excitedly as she began to show her first signs of life that morning. "Mind telling me what your plan is?"

"Well Ulrich said not to tell any...ah, what the heck. Might as well let you know." Jin reached into his pocket and pulled out a small 3x5 index card and held it in front of him. "Well we're going to give this card to Jim that Jeremie made and we'll watch the chaos commence. It will be pan-de-monium," Jin rubbed his hands in invisible soap as he began to envision the beautiful prank they had in store for their ever suspicious gym teacher.

"Let me guess, your gonna address that card to him and say that it's from a beautiful woman who would love to talk to him and you put a phoney number on the card so when Jim dials the number he's actually calling the principal."

"To tell you the truth I really don't know. Jeremie said that knowing Jim's level of intelligence that this thing will work on him. I never read the card before. I'm just holding it for safe keeping."

"Safe keeping?" a worrisome Yumi answered. "Since when do you keep things safe?"

"I'm a responsible guy"

"Sure you are Aniki. Just like the time you almost destroyed Odd's guitar back when we were the Pop Rock Progressives."

"Hey it was an honest mistake. Anybody would have done it."

"Jin, you tried to use it as a pogo stick!" Yumi asserted.

"Like I said, it's an honest mistake."

Yumi quickly changed the subject to preserve the reaming IQ points she had before they would all self-destruct after hearing Jin's random babbling.

"Why don't you read that card now to see what it actually says."

"Sure" Jin raised the card so that it was at eye level and began to read it out loud.

"How to keep an idiot busy, turn card over."

Jin complied with the card's demands and flipped it to its reverse side.

"How to keep an idiot busy, turn card over."

Again Jin listened to what the writing said and turned the card over once more.

"How to keep an idiot busy, turn card over."

Jin's frustrations rose to new heights as he was denied the useful tidbit of information that the card promised.

"Arrrrg! How do you keep an idiot busy? Tell me you damn piece of paper!"

Yumi quickly snatched the card from her brother's grasp and looked him in the eye.

"You give them a repetitive task to do over and over again."

"Tsk, that will never work. Now give me that card back."

Yumi knew how "dangerous" the small piece of paper was in Jin's hands and quickly tore it to shreds to prevent any more damages.

"Hey! Now what are we going to use as a Halloween prank?"

"Shouldn't we get ready for school?" Yumi countered with a question of her own.

"You got a point there."

The two siblings said nothing more and both raced upstairs so that they wouldn't be late for the day's classes.


Jeremie finished changing into his blue demin jacket and jeans before turning on his computer for one last chat with Aelita before he joined his friends outside.

"Morning Aelita" Jeremie greeted his virtual companion.

"Hello Jeremie." Aelita responded kindly. She then noticed her friend's sudden changed in wardrobe and decided to comment on it. "Why are you dressed so differently today?"

"Well Aelita, today is Halloween."

"Halloween?" The perplexed program asked not to sure what to make of the explanation.

"It comes every 31st of October. It's a holiday where people masquerade as other individuals or monsters. I would like to tell you more but I have to go outside soon and meet Odd and Ulrich."

"Monsters? You mean people actually dress up like the roaches, crabs, blocks and hornets on Lyoko?"

"Not those kind of monsters. These beings populate fictional horror stories here in the real world like Dracula, Frankenstein and the Werewolf."

"Wow Jeremie just hearing their names sounds frightening enough."

"Don't worry Aelita. Unlike the monsters in Lyoko, these creatures can't hurt you and only exist for our enjoyment."

Aelita took a brief moment to inspect Jeremie's blue outfit and was indeed curious of his costume.

"So who are you dressed up as?"

"He's from an old TV show I used to watch when I was a kid called Power Rangers and his name was Billy. He wasn't much of a fighter but he was a genius with computers and was the intellectual in the group."

Jeremie took a couple of steps away from the computer and flashed Aelita an excited smile.

"Watch this. I've been practicing it all day yesterday."

Jeremie extended both of his arms from opposite sides of his body and moved them in a circular motion before posing in a very cheesy kung-fu stance.

"IT'S MORPHIN TIME!"

Aelita couldn't help but sweatdrop at the sheer sight of Jeremie's goofy antics.

"And to think he's the smart one" the girl said to herself.


Ulrich leaned against the gate that he would usually meet Yumi and Jin at and stared blankly into space. Like the rest of his friends, Ulrich was extremely anxious to see all the outfits the others would be wearing for today since they all promised each other not to spoil the "surprise" and give out too much information too early. However, he and Odd had decided to go with a specific theme with their costumes this year and he couldn't wait to see the reaction on his friends' faces. Ulrich casually looked toward the pathway that lead the students into Kadic Junior High and saw an unfamiliar figure standing with his back turned next to him. The person wore a pair of white pants and a white blazer with a high collar that concealed his neck.

"Must be a new student." Ulrich casually thought to himself as he approached the strange individual.

"Need any help?" Ulrich asked the orange-haired boy who swiftly turned around to answer his question.

"Not really Ulrich" the boy remarked while staring at his inquisitor through the glasses placed on his head. Ulrich watched the well-dressed student dust his hands off on the black shirt he wore underneath his white red-lined jacket before recognizing whom the voice really belonged to.

"JIN?!"

"The one and only"

"Who the heck you're supposed to be?!"

"Kyosuke. He's a character from a game called Rival Schools. I used to play that all the time when I lived in America and he was by best player. Now who are you supposed to be?"

Jin lowered his glasses so he could get a better picture of Ulrich's costume and was instantly floored by his choice of clothing. Jin was in disbelief when he saw a pair of gray, red and white track pants, a blood-red long sleeve shirt, a black jacket with one sleeve rolled up and, to top it all off, a set of black street-style headphones.

"NO WAY! YOU'RE..."

"Jin, Ishiyama. At your service." Ulrich then performed Jin's signature gentlemen's bow and looked him square in the eye.

"I must be dreaming." Jin said softly to himself.

Ulrich couldn't help but chuckle at Jin's reaction seeing that it was indeed the desired response that he was aiming for.

"Glad you like it Jin. Yeah, Odd and I said that we should go as people we know this year for Halloween instead of just fictional characters."

"Oh God." Jin said worryingly. "If you're me then I shudder to think who Odd decided to impersonate."

"So what do you think of my outfit?" Ulrich asked wanting to get Jin's honest opinion.

"Well it sucks to be you."

"What?! But I have your look down to the exact detail. How can you say that it sucks?"

"No you misheard me. I said it sucks to be you. You're gonna have such an interesting experience being me for a day."

"This is just a costume. What can possibly happen to me?"

Suddenly a football from a nearby game of catch soared through the air and smashed into Ulrich's jaw managing to knock him down.

"Yep" Jin said matter-of-factly. "You just got my reputation and bad luck for a day. Have fun."

No sooner did Jin complete that statement did the hulking individual who threw the menacing ball appear.

"You might want to apologize to my friend there who you managed to clobber with your aim." Jin pressured the student.

The large student took one good look at Ulrich and shook his head from side to side.

"Naw"

"Naw?"

"Yeah, that's Jin Ishiyama the weirdo. In fact I think I actually did him a favor by knocking him around like that. Maybe I pounded some sanity into that empty head of his."

Despite the fact that the student was not directly addressing him, the real Jin could not help but feel offended by his comments but tried his best to conceal his anger.

"Are you sure that guy is really Jin? Maybe he's some student dressing up as him for Halloween. Ever think about that?"

"As if. Who would want to dress up as that moron? I know the real Jin when I see him. Even if he dyed his hair orange and wore glasses."

Now Jin was really pissed. Looks like he was going to teach this misinformed soul a very painful lesson in humility.

"SHADOW CUT KICK!"

Jin imitated the character he was currently dressed as and threw all of his weight into one powerful moonsault kick striking the offending student's jaw with his right foot.

Too bad he forgot the little lesson he learned at the dance battle he had with Odd when James Finson decided to pay their school a visit. That lesson being that he could not do a complete backflip.

THUD!

The large student seriously considered walking away from the entire thing after seeing that his opponent kicked his own ass in that exchanged.

This consideration only lasted for a total of .345 seconds.

"Time to add some more damage"

However, before the student could take his free shots, Jin slowly rose to his feet and pointed an accusing finger at his attacker.

"HA! Don't think that this fight is over!"

"I think it is. I'm bigger and stronger than you. Plus you're doing most of my work for me by falling on your face like that."

"But you forgot about Anime Cliche' number 1368!"

"Anime Cliche' number 1368?" The bully repeated.

"Yep, all I have to do is think of my dead girlfriend, my parents being killed and my homeland totally destroyed and I will be fueled with enough rage to kick your ass!"

"Too bad none of that stuff really happened to you."

"Crap, you're right! Damn I'm screwed."

(Insert random sounds of violence here)

Jeremie calmly walked toward the gate to meet his friends but was only greeted with Ulrich and Jin's unconscious bodies.

"I don't even wanna know what happened."

Now thanks to the beauty of cartoons and seeing how that indeed this is a piece of comedic work, Jin and Ulrich should be completely healed in two seconds which should be right about...

Now.

The two boys slowly rose to their feet and waved to Jeremie as if nothing unusual happened.

"Nice costume Jeremie." Ulrich commented.

"Wow, you actually know what show it's from?"

"Of course it's..."

Ulrich and the others took a few moments to see if anyone else was eavesdropping on their conversation. Once satisfied with the knowledge that they were alone they all looked at each other with wide smiles.

"POWER RANGERS ROCKS!" All Ulrich and Jeremie said in unison.

Jeremie was the fist to kick off the discussion. "Man the coolest thing was the..."

"Megazord" Ulrich completed Jeremie statement before continuing on with the conversation. "I know, that was the coolest robot off all time. Let's not forget the..."

"Green Ranger, he ruled all" Jeremie finished.

"Green Ranger?!" Ulrich said slightly peeved. "The Red Ranger was clearly the best."

"No, the Green Ranger. He had that cool shield and got to use the Dragonzord."

"You may be the smart guy Jeremie but you know nothing about Power Rangers. The Red Ranger's Power Sword was the best weapon in the series."

"You're just saying that because you use a sword in Lyoko. Look the Green Ranger was the best and that's final."

"No, the Red one"

"The Green one"

"Red!"

"Green!"

"RED!"

"GREEN!"

"I was more of a Ninja Turtles fan myself. Leonardo can kick both of their butts any day" Jin interjected momentarily stopping the quarreling between his friends.

"NINJA TURTLES?!" Ulrich and Jeremie exclaimed, appalled by Jin's taste in television.

"Was it something I said?"

Ulrich and Jeremie exchanged devious grins before pounding their fists into the palms of their hands.

"Why me?" Jin said in despair while the two Power Ranger fans closed in on the traitor.

(Insert random sounds of violence here...again)

Ulrich quickly dusted his hands off and placed both of them in his pockets before turning to face Jeremie.

"So where did we leave off?"

"I believe we were engaged in an intelligent and gripping verbal duel highlighting the characteristics of our two favorite Power Rangers."

"Oh yeah....RED!"

"GREEN!"

"RED!"

"GREEN!"

"Would you two just shut up!"

Ulrich and Jeremie stopped their bickering once more and saw Sissi standing right beside them wearing a red dress with a matching bow in her hair.

"Geez Sissi" Ulrich said seriously. "Could you have been just a little more original with your costume? Wearing just a simple red dress and bow doesn't really qualify as Halloween attire."

"Humph" the girl snorted. "Just to let you two know, I'm Blossom from the Powerpuff Girls. I think their outfits are really cute."

Jeremie was quick to notice the grammatical error in Sissi's sentence.

"Uh Sissi, you said Powerpuff Girls." Jeremie emphasized the s at the end of girl to clarify his statement. "But you are the only one here. Where are your other counterparts?"

Ulrich too had a question of his own. "Most importantly who would want to dress up as the other two Powerpuff Girls? I mean, only Herb and Nicholas hang around you and there is no chance in Hell that those two would agree to be humiliated in such a way."

Once again, the rules of comedic fanfiction writing held themselves to be true as Jin quickly stood up unscathed from Ulrich and Jeremie's attack.

"Now this sounds interesting. Just who would be crazy enough to dress in matching costumes with Sissi?" Jin spoke out loud letting the others know that he was in perfect health.

"Oh you'd be surprised" Sissi said with a smug on her face. "Boys"

Herb and Nicholas both emerged from the safety of a nearby tree that they took shelter behind to prevent themselves from being seen and were both wearing similar skits to the one Sissi had on except Herb's was green while Nicholas's was blue.

"I think I'm going to be sick" Jeremie said as his complection began to change to a greenish color.

"I just HAD to ask" Ulrich cried out to the heavens.

"I was better of being unconscious." Jin cried out rearing his fist back as if to throw yet another knock out blow.


"So why did we agree to this again?" Herb whispered to Nicholas behind Sissi's back.

"Because Sissi said that she would no longer hang out with us and we both know, we'll never be able to stand this close to a girl again."

"Thanks for reminding me." Herb replied sarcasticlly.

"Oh, one more thing Herb"

"What?"

"I don't know about you but I feel pretty in this thing."

"Please shoot me now" Herb begged to the heavens.


Sissi was unaware of the conversation between her "sisters" and was too focused on bragging about her own beauty.

"Ah the three of you are just jealous of how stunning I look right now. You guys just can't face the fact that my costume makes me look only prettier and I bet you that there isn't another girl on this campus who can match my gorgeous good looks" Sissi boasted.

A large group of male students would have disagreed with Sissi's challenge as they began to clamor around a single girl in the gateway.

"Man just look at her!" One student said excitedly.

"I know. She's just SO hot!" Another one replied.

The subject of their attention was completely fed up with the crowd's pestering and decided to remedy the situation.

"HIYA!" The girl screamed throwing her legs around her to deliver a powerful 360 degree kick that sent her onlookers flying through the air Ranma ½ style.

Ulrich squinted his eyes to get a better view of this mysterious woman. She wore a pair of white boots over her skin tight brown pants. A silk blue Chinese shirt decorated her torso while her hair was tied up in two buns on the top of her head. He couldn't help but stare at the girl's beauty and was instantly mesmerized by her looks.

Jin was more disgusted than impressed.

"Dude that's just sick! You're supposed to be me for a day and I already see you gaping at my sister. That sort of stuff should only happens on the Jerrry Springer Show."

"Yu-Yumi!" Sissi stammered after noticing the elaborate costume her arch nemesis was wearing.

"I'm glad you like it Ulrich" the Japanese girl said with a smile.

Being the video game fan he was, Jin already knew the character that his sister was dressed up as. "Nice getup Chun-Li"

"ANIKI?!" Yumi said, surprised to see her brother in such unusual clothing. "I can't believe you dressed up as Kyosuke."

"Yep, looks like we both chose to go as video game characters this year."

"I'm just shocked that you dyed your hair orange."

"Crazy isn't it?"

"You do know the dye you used is permanent, right?"

"Ah man, looks like I'll have to dye it black by the end of the day."

Yumi then set her sights on Ulrich and couldn't help but laugh hysterically at his costume.

"OH MY GOD!" Yumi screamed at the top of her lungs. "You actually went as Jin this year. That is SOOO funny. I just hope you don't get hurt like he always does."

"Ulrich rubbed his chin where the football made impact and shook his head.

"If you only knew."

Jeremie's outfit was next to be inspected by the eyes of the younger Ishiyama.

"Never figured you to be a Power Rangers fan Jeremie....Jeremie are you even listening to me?"

After hearing his name, Jeremie was able to recollect himself after seeing Yumi's choice of clothes for Halloween and join the realm of the living.

"You know what guys?"

"What?" They responded promptly.

"Well I'm dressed as a Power Ranger, Yumi and Jin are both video game characters while Ulrich, for some reason of God, has decided to be Jin for the day."

"Thank you very much Captain Obvious. Mind telling the group something that we don't know for a change." Jin said sarcastically.

"Well if the four of us had managed to come up with some pretty outrageous ideas. I can only shudder to see what Odd has in store for us."

"Hey Ulrich" Jin spoke drawing everyone's attention to him. "Did you say that both you and Odd agreed to go as people you knew this year."

"Correct"

"So that's why you're dressed liked Aniki" Yumi concluded. "Now I'm really worried about seeing him today. I don't think my body can handle the shock."

"Big deal!" Sissi yelled out reminding the four members of the "Weirdo Bunch" that she was still within earshot of their conversation. "Who can Odd be that would scare you so much."

Normally when asked a question Ulrich would look at the person straight in the eye before giving his answer. However, since looking at Sissy also involved him looking at the cross- dressing Herb and Nicholas, he kept his back turned for his own sake.

"Obviously Sissi, you don't know Odd that well. He can do some pretty strange things given enough motivation."

A high pitch whistle could be heard close by which instantly caught the group of fives undecided attention.

"Now you guys better not be doing anything suspicious over there!" A gruff voice boomed across the field.

"Now who could that be?" Jeremie asked before facing the direction where the whistle came from. "OH GOD NO!"

Standing right in front of them was Odd. Wearing a white headband and a band-aid on his cheek. He quickly patted the belly of his red windbreaker jacket which he stuffed with a pillow to augment its size. Jeremie's gaze shifted to Odd's knee-length pants and white socks before he rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

"YOU CHOSE TO BE JIM THIS YEAR!"

"Yeah I'm Jim" Odd said in his best impression of his P.E. teacher.

"This is unreal" Ulrich said wide-eyed.

"You know what's unreal, your soccer performance. My grandmother and kick a ball better than you can Ulrich!"

"You mean Jin"

"Ulrich, Jin, you two are the same to me."

"HEY I RESENT THAT!" The two boys in question exclaimed.

RING!

The school bell rang and ended Odd's ego trip and ushered the rest of the students to their classes.


Jeremie was the first to arrive in Mrs. Hertz's class and watched Odd and Ulrich take their seats behind him.

"Hey did you guys hear?" Jeremie whispered across the table.

"What?" Ulrich asked.

"I overheard Sissy talking and she said that we're having a substitute teacher today since Mrs. Hertz had to help set up the assembly we're going to have today."

"Cool, an entire period of goofing off. This may be the best Halloween ever."

"I won't allow any of that stuff to happen under my watch!" Odd said loudly, still using his Jim voice. "If I catch you two breaking the rules, I'll make sure that the principal gives you a week's wroth of detention."

"Odd, would you give it a break?" Ulrich pleaded.

"Sorry man" Odd responded in his normal tone of voice. "It's this headband and band-aid. I swear by, I feel like I'm actually the man himself."

"Now that's just scary." Before Ulrich could say any more, he felt a small tap on his shoulder.

"Hey, I know you" said a random student. "You're that jerk off Jin!"

"No, I'm Ulrich. I've been sitting in this seat for this entire time and besides, Jin doesn't even have this class." Ulrich said trying to defend himself.

"Don't try to get fresh with me Jin! You don't think I forgot about the time you tripped and managed to spill milk all over my shirt in the cafeteria a week ago because I don't!"

Just when the confrontation couldn't get any uglier, a moderately size chunk of ceiling broke away from the top of the classroom and came crashing down onto Ulrich's skull.

Odd and Jeremie quickly rushed over to their friend's side to see if he was ok. They quickly removed the ceiling slab and saw that Ulrich was unharmed.

"And to think Jin puts up with this stuff every day and manages to stay alive is astounding." Ulrich commented to himself.

"I can't believe that chunk of the roof didn't hurt you." Odd said in amazement.

"It's like what my mother said, I always had a thick head structure wise. I'm pretty much know what's going around me on a daily basis."

"Suuuurrre" Odd placed his fist over his mouth and released a VERY phony cough. "Yumilikesyou"

"Huh, what about Yumi and Jews?"

"Never mind. Geez when is that sub going to get here?"

CRACK!

The door to the classroom was suddenly kicked opened. Revealing a blonde man in his early twenties wearing a white suit and with a cigaret in his mouth.

"Afternoon class I am your substitute teacher for the day. Great Teacher Onizuka. GTO."

The class was dumfounded with their teacher's entrance and just sat there with their jaws hanging out of their mouths.

"Am I even in the right place? I heard that this was the troublesome class that's been giving the staff at this school a heard time."

Onizuka scanned the room for any signs of life and soon came across Herb and Nicholas and their blue and green skirts.

"OH GOD I MUST BE IN THE RIGHT CLASS! LOOK AT THOSE HIDEOUS CREATURES! THIS IS WORSE THAN I IMAGINED!"

The teacher quickly put out his cigaret and began to take role.

"Sissi"

"Here"

"Jeremie"

"Present"

"Odd"

"Here"

"Ulrich"

"Here"

"Dirk"

No response.

"You guys know where Dirk Kap Hwan is?"

Still no response.

"Ok next is Clayton Mil. Is Clayton here?"

Once again silence.

"Oh no, here we go again." Jeremie said while slapping his forehead with the palm of his hand.

"What do you mean?" Ulrich asked.

"Well. Every time somebody says where is "so and so" they always show up with some sort of grand entrance and totally take us by surprise. I say we wait a few seconds to prepare ourselves for whatever the Troublesome Duo has up their sleeves."

Mr. Onizuka placed a small check mark by Dirk and Clayton's names and set his attendance log down.

"So class on to today's lesson plan..."

The substitute teacher was cut off by the sound of the door being opened revealing Dirk standing in the doorway. He wore a red turtleneck underneath a black coat and adjusted his rose tinted glasses before walking into the class. Clayton was also wearing a different set of clothes that day as he came to class wearing a brown military uniform.

Dirk sat down and folded the fingers of his gloved hands over his lips concealing them from view as the light from the classroom reflected off the lenses of his glasses giving the boy an intimidating look.

"You two must be Dirk and Clayton" Onizuka concluded.

"Please, spare me your worthless conclusions" Dirk said in disgust. His now icy cold voice and calm demeanor sent chills down the spines of his fellow classmates. "Just because you believe you have a general understanding of the current world does not mean you need to act so condescending on your students."

"Enough with The Art of War already!" Odd screamed out speaking as himself rather than his P.E. teacher.

"The information contained within the contents of that military manual are sufficient for the uneducated masses but prove to be far from substantial to someone of my intellectual caliber. I prefer something a little more "detailed" for my endeavors."

"And that would be?'

"The Dead Sea Scrolls. With the aid of these items I shall accelerate the evolutionary process of the human race and cause the Third Impact!'

Clayton banged his head against his desk after realizing the monster he helped create.

"That's the last time I let Dirk watch any more videos from my anime collection. That guy has lost his mind" he thought to himself before continuing to do his perfect impersonation of his character, which consisted of sitting around and do nothing.

Onizuka stared at his two latest entries wide-eyed as he realized where they drew inspiration for their costumes from.

"On no, Gendo and Fuyutsuki from Evangelion! Forget about me being in the right class. Am I even in the right anime!?'

Herb raised his hand.

"The pimply-faced kid in the God-awful green dress. What is it?"

"Technically Code Lyoko isn't an anime." Herb corrected his teacher. "The term anime applies to animation from Japan and our series comes from France which means that this is indeed not anime."

Herb folded his arms across his chest impressed with the volumes of information he was able to distribute to the class within the time span of a few seconds. However, Mr. Onizuka wasn't going to let his comments slip by unchallenged.

"Does anybody here care what this guy is saying?"

"NO!" The class responded in one powerful negative statement.

"Right answer class. You all get an A for the day...except for the idiot who said that this show isn't a real anime."

Herb was saved from even further embarrassment as the voice of the school's principal came on the P.A.

"Attention all students" his bold voice projected from the confines of the tiny speaker. "Our annual Halloween Assembly will commence shortly. Please report to the auditorium now. Thank you."

Dirk was still unamused with the antics of his new substitute teacher and wanted to get to the bottom of the situation.

"Tell me something, are you really who you say you are or are you just faking the whole thing. Am I right Mr. Leemer?"

"Onizuka" then placed his right palm on top of his head and removed the blonde wig that he was wearing and revealed to the class his true identity.

"Dirk's right, I'm not really Mr. Onizuka, that was just a really bad crossover attempted by a sub par fanfic writer."

"Fanfic writer?" Dirk said perplexed.

"Never mind, it's not worth mentioning here but be carful, he might use subliminal messages to advertise his story here. Stay on your toes. G-force 4 is a very sneaky individual."


Hey kids! Don't forget to tell your friends about Code Lyoko: A Retelling!


Ulrich, Odd and Jeremie met up with Yumi and Jin at the double doors that lead up the auditorium. Apparently they were the first ones at the door thanks to the Ulrich's constant running.

"HA!" Ulrich yelled in triumph as stood in front of the door with his arms folded across his chest.

"Why (huff) are you (huff) so (huff) happy? (huff)" Jeremie asked in between breaths wondering why his friend was so eager to be the first one at the assembly.

"Ever since this morning bad stuff been happening to me all because I dressed like Jin."

"Soooo..."

"Soooo, we're going to be the first one's inside and chose a nice safe seat so that nothing can hurt me during the assembly."

"That's good Ulrich but you shouldn't stand so close to the door like that."

"Why not?"

The doors opened violently and smashed into Ulrich blowing him away a couple of feet from his original position. The rest of the students looked at the man in the doorway and saw Murphy the school's janitor standing right before them.

"Alright kids, you can go in now."

Yumi looked at Ulrich's unconscious form before turning to the rest of the group.

"Maybe we should stay away from Ulrich for the rest of the day."

"Agreed" the replied in unison.


Milly brushed away the two pigtails she tied her hair into and adjusted the orange top and miniskirt she wore before flashing a smile at her best friend Tamiya.

"So tell me again who exactly are you?" The camerawoman asked.

"Ulala from Space Channel 5."

"Why?"

"Because she's a reporter and I thought the outfit suits me. Now what about you Tamiya?"

Tamiya glanced at her yellow jumpsuit with the number six embroidered above her left breast pocket and placed her hand on her hip.

"Well I'm a famous reporter too Milly. April O' Neil to be exact."

"Let's just get this report over with."

Tamiya nodded her head in agreement and raised her camera to so that it rested comfortably at eye level before hitting the record button.

"Good afternoon students of Kadic Junior High. Junior reporters Milly and Tamiya here ready to bring to you breaking news from the school's auditorium. The Halloween spirit has defiantly taken hold around the campus as several students are dressed for the occasion. "

Tamiya angled her camera so that the auditorium's stage was centered in the shot and was able to catch the principal walk on stage.

"OH MY GOD!" Jin exclaimed. "HE'S ACTUALLY WEARING A BLACK SUIT! Somebody please pinch me."

"Good morning students" the principle spoke in the microphone that was already set up. "Well me, Mrs. Hertz and Jim have decided to participate in the day's activities and are all wearing matching costumes."

Mrs. Hertz quickly stood by the Principal's side and was also wearing a midnight-black suit. The two of them stood on stage in complete silence.

"Jim sure is taking his sweet time" Mrs. Hertz's whispered into his ear. "I just hope he's wearing a suit like us."

"Yo, yo yo!" A voice boomed from offstage.

"Something tells me he's not" the principal said in despair.

Jim emerged from backstage and was dressed like a rapper complete with bandanna and baggy pants and had a microphone of his own.

"Jim, what is the meaning of this?!" The principal whispered loudly. "The three of us were supposed to be the Turks from Final Fantasy VII this year!"

"Yeah I know, but when I was walking home a student came up to me and asked me if I was trying to be like Nelly since I always wear a bandage on my face. Then I thought, yeah that would make a great Halloween costume. Now check out my mad flowing skillz."

"Skillz?"

"That's how all the big name rappers say it." Jim tightened the grip of his microphone and began to rap for the captive audience.

Yo, here's the Jimbo
Yall wanna limbo
Hey Nelly, you think you're the leader
Fool you're nothing but a Trick-or-Treater

"Hehe, Topac has nothing on me"

The crowd begged to differ.


Jin quickly cupped his hands around his ears and fell on the floor in agony.

"My ears, they burn!"

"And I thought XANA had a deadly melody" Jeremie cried out hoping the music would fade away.

"That wasn't music, that was thirty seconds of burning in Hell and I'm wearing my earplugs!" Ulrich said in a similar painful tone of voice.

"Was it something I said?" The clueless Jim teacher pondered as he watched the entire auditorium squirm in suffering.

END


Wishful Thinking:

Nothing much to say here except...PLEASE VISIT MY WEBSITE AND SUBMIT YOUR AUDITIONS ASAP! That was fun.


Author Response:

KotokoPlum: Thanks for all of your corrections. I just finished correcting Teddygodzilla and Deja Vu's recruit. I'll be fixing the other chapters soon.

laughingcow and Flying Star too lazy to sign in: Welcome to Code Lyoko a Retelling. I'm glad to see that I have a pair of new readers who have fished the first twelve chapters of the series and are eagerly waiting for more. If you want the experience to continue don't forget about my website that can be found in my profile.

Briar Noir: I would be honored if you leant your drawing talents to the Retelling Series. I tried to contact you but you didn't post your e-mail on the site so I'm going to use this section to let you know that I would love to have you as a member of the "staff". I would like to see some of your previous drawings so I can get an overall feel for your style.

Treaspasser: My hat goes off to you. For you to read eleven chapters of a really long fic that "makes you sick" you got some serious endurance. You are the first bad review that I have ever got and I thank you for giving me the experience. Now feel free to disagree and hate the story all you want, that's not my concern however your "review" left some serious issues that need to be addressed.

For one, you stated yourself that I just simply "retold" the episodes. Well my friend if you look at the title it's Code Lyoko: A Retelling. Of course I'm going to do that. Next, if you even bothered to pay attention to my writing, you can see that these episodes are NOT carbon copies. For the following reasons.

1. New characters such as Jin, Dirk and Clayton who have made a DRAMATIC impact on the series as a whole. Offering new points of view, chances for fights outside of Lyoko and conflicts with the existing cast.

2. Original Episodes that further deepen the series as a whole

3. New characterization for Sissi, Jim, Herb, Nicholas, Odd and Jeremie. The first four individuals are now more human and are seen in a different light by the reader and are no longer "good for nothing bad guys." As for Odd and Jeremie, they have learned martial through the course of the fic and can now fight both in and out of Lyoko, except for Jeremie who has to man the scanners.

4. XANA's point of view being added. We never see what XANA thinks like and there aren't too many fics that do the same thing.

5. Some of the mysteries of the series are explained here. The infamous pain theory has its own explanation and the reader finds out why Yumi was in Lyoko by herself in Image Problem.

So with the expansions I made to the series, am I still just "retelling" them or have I done something more. What I am doing her is just as hard as writing an original story of my own. Sure I admit that most of the chapters are outlined for me but I am burdened with the task of both staying true to the original episodes while at the same time varying them up enough so that they are a new experience for the reader. Now I would "love" to stop writing my fic but if you recall the notes in my first chapter I said I will continue to write how I see fit and respond to any flamers. So if you hate my story so much BACK OFF! There are plenty of readers here who love to read it and it is my obligation as an author to finish my story for their sakes. I made an oath that I will retell all of the chapters and I am sticking true to my promise.


Outtakes:

Well since the entire chapter is funny I decided to post some random outtakes here just for the heck of it.

The camera shifts to the outside of a dojo where it's double doors could be seen. Jin slowly walks outside onto the open field and begins to practice his strikes against a set of imaginary opponents. All while Jin is practicing, a strange booming voice comes out of no where and begins to narrate.

"It's not easy being a teenager named Jin Ishiyama. But it's even worse when your pulled away from your comfy life in America to some weird boarding school in France with a creepy gym teacher who follows your every move. After the school smart guy suggest an experiment involving a few scanners and a weird computer named XANA located in some abandoned factory god knows where. He doesn't know what the hell he is doing and soon you're involved in a little...ACCIDENT!"

A gigantic wave of water washes over the scene revealing Yumi but she is wearing Jin's signature outfit.

"What the hell did you that for?!" Yumi screamed at the camera.

"From now on a splash of cold water will turn Jin into a beautiful but somewhat distant Yumi. Warm water reverses the effect but only until next time. What's a half boy half girl to do? Find out in Lyoko ½. Yin and Yang never been so much fun."

"The things Aniki and I do for money"


Yumi, Odd, Ulrich and Jin were standing in a vacant area in Lyoko.

"Ok guys. I installed a new training program to better prepare you against XANA's monsters." Jeremie spoke to the party of four.

Ulrich drew out his sword and stared off in the distance. "Sounds great Jeremie. I'm ready for anything."

"Ok here goes."

Jeremie hit the enter key on his keyboard and an elderly man began to take shape in Lyoko.

"Hello students"

"What the?" The rest of the group said with puzzled looks on their faces.

"Now follow me"

The elderly man raised his right hand and moved it in a clockwise direction followed by his left hand in a counter-clockwise motion.

"Wax on, wax off"

Ulrich sweatdropped and put his sword away.

"Jeremie...THIS IS THE LAST TIME I LET YOU WATCH THE KARATE KID AGAIN!"


Odd stared down the two blocks in front of him and saw them charge their laser cannons.

"This can't be good"

Just when the blocks were about to fire, they froze in place.

"Huh?"

Bit by bit the charge completed itself in a jerky motion. Five minutes passes and the projectiles finally shot out of their weapons but were moving at a speed that would have made a snail seem like the next Jesse Owens.

"What's going on Einstein"

"Well I found out that Lyoko is run on a 56k modem. And I'm using Napster right now."

"Stupid dial up"


Notes on the Chapter:

Well I noticed how much you guys loved my outtakes so I decided to do a humorous chapter just for you guys. Before I started the Retelling Series, I wrote a bunch of funny Code Lyoko interviews on the forums so that was the first genre of writing I got a grasp on. My humor is a little out there and I love to use copyrighted material just for my amusement. I really tried to pick costumes that the characters would wear or that they just match their personalities. If you can't picture Jin's outfit in your head then either search for Kyosuke on Google or check my website out. I hoped you found this chapter very fun to read. Just to recap, here's the complete costume list for the chapter.

Yumi - Chun-Li (Street Fighter)
Jin - Kyosuke (Rival Schools)
Ulrich - Jin Ishiyama (Code Lyoko: A Retelling)
Odd - Jim (Code Lyoko)
Mrs. Hertz - Elena (Final Fantasy VII)
The Principal - Reno (Final Fantasy VII)
Jim - Nelly (Famous Rapper)
Jeremie - Billy (Power Rangers)
Mr. Leemer - Eikichi Onizuka (GTO)
Dirk - Gendo Ikari (Evangelion)
Clayton - Kozo Fuyutsuki (Evangeion)
Sissi - Blossom (The Powerpuff Girls)
Herb - Buttercup (The Powerpuff Girls)
Nicholas - Bubbles (The Powerpuff Girls)
Tamiya - April O' Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Milly - Ulala (Space Channel 5)