A/N: Not sure how most of the stuff around Kadic works, so I made a lot up. Hope it works for y'all. Comment if you like!
"Hey, guys, have you heard? There's going to be a surprise dorm inspection tomorrow right after school."
"Not much of a surprise if you know."
"Well, yeah, I heard it in math class. A bunch of people were talking about it before the teacher told them to quiet down."
"Okay, thanks for the heads-up, Shikamaru."
"Don't mention it." The bell rang, and the history teacher began class.
"All right, I'm done here. How about you, Hinata?" Aelita said, closing her wardrobe.
"Mmm-hmm, I'm finished, too."
"Okay." Aelita sat down on her own bed.
"Why are you cleaning up already? The inspection's not gonna be till tomorrow afternoon." Shikamaru watched his roommate put things up.
"I am not going to be here in the morning; you know that, and it is better to do things beforehand, anyway."
"And that should be good."
"Yup." Kiba looked around the room. "And Akamaru knows to get out right before school ends, so we'll be fine there."
"All right, great. Now, back to work." Jeremy turned around and booted up his computer.
Odd leaned against the side of the room with his headset on.
"Odd, aren't you going to help?"
"Nah. I can get it in the morning."
"In case you hadn't noticed, you're really not much of a morning person."
"Just quit being a worrywart. I'll get to it when I get to it."
The final bell rang, and students shot out of class.
"What's your hurry, Odd?"
"I didn't clean my half of the dorm! Gotta hurry before it gets inspected!"
"Well, good luck."
"You're telling me. I'll see you later."
"Bye." Kiba walked out of the building.
Odd opened the room to his dorm.
"Aaah! Kiwi!" The dog was chomping down on a pillow; a lot of feathers had already fallen out. Kiwi shook his head, scattering more feathers across the room. "No! Bad Kiwi!" Odd tugged the pillow away from his pet. The door opened slowly.
"Hey, I'm here to pick up-What the heck happened in here?" Odd, who was vigorously picking up feathers, turned around.
"Oh, it's you, Shikamaru. Good, I thought it was going to be Jim or somebody."
"Need some help?"
"Yeah. Come on." The two started picking up feathers.
Lee's voice came from the hallway. "Shikamaru! They are coming! What is taking you so long?" He peeped in through the door.
"Hurry!" Odd said, fumbling a feather.
"Here, let me help."
"No, wait-!" Lee ran into the room. The collected feathers flew up.
"Aaah!"
"Sorry!" The three started plucking up the feathers.
"Hurry, put them back in the pillow!" Shikamaru yelled. He took Kiwi, who submitted a bit unwillingly, and ran out of the dorm. Odd shoved the feathers into the pillow just as Jim and Delmas walked into the room.
"All right. You girls have a nice day." The inspectors closed the door to Aelita's and Hinata's room. Aelita's cell phone started ringing.
"Jeremy? Mmm-hmm. Right. I'll be there." The pink-haired girl hung up. "There's an activated tower in the mountain sector. Come on."
The Lyoko warriors exited the dorm and headed to the woods.
"I can't believe this; they're still working on the sewers? Oh, well, I guess we'll have to go the long way, then. It's this way, Hinata." Aelita changed course a bit and soon reached the familiar white building. There they met up with Odd.
"Huh?"
"Did you hear that?"
"Uh-huh."
"I think that was Ulrich!"
"Uh! Hey, wait!"
Odd had already shot off.
"Do you think it's a trap?" Aelita asked.
Hinata made a few hand signs. "Byakugan!" she said on the final one. She looked after where Odd had started off.
"No, Ulrich's not there!" Hinata ran after the blonde. "Odd! Stop!" She stepped quickly down the stairs.
"Ulrich?" Odd looked around the turbines room.
"Odd! It's a trap!"
"Huh?"
"Hurry, get out!" Hinata shoved him to the other side of the door. It slammed shut.
"Hinata!"
"I'll be okay! Hurry and get to the scanners!"
"All right!"