Disclaimer: Don't own Code Lyoko or any of the characters (except my own character, of course :) )) Besides all I have is a cute Code Lyoko Ring tone and a French music video, do you really want to take that away from me?

A/N: This is my first Code Lyoko story :-/ I'm a new fan (and addict) of the show. This chapter is a little, weird I guess. I'm not really use to writing with these characters or this story plot so, I mean, it'll get better ((if you like it and want me to continue that is)) But I do have a good idea, which I'm sure has been done before (Original character, X.A.N.A threat, just seems so original lol.) I'll try and make it better in the second chapter :) Hope you enjoy! R&R! :)

Summary: Sometimes you need a little extra help from the outside to fix the things on the inside. Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremy are over worked with X.A.N.A, school, and their lives. Between constant attacks and the cure for Alieta, how are they going to even pretend to be normal? What happens when a new girl (who's a mega genuis) transfer to Kadic? Can she help or is she causing more trouble? What's going on between Odd and Jeremy? And can Alieta bare moving from Lyoko to Earth constantly? When romance blossoms, crushes become blurry, attacks on their lives are becoming more dangerous, and the baine of their existence is threaten, how can a group of friends keep a dangerous secret and still pretend that nothing's going on?

Some things change, while some things stay the same, and only time will tell if it's good or if it's bad.

"And why do I have to care about this?" Odd asked as he took a bite of the pastry in front of him. Jeremy looked over at him and sighed a little, shaking his head, and continuing to type in his laptop.

"I didn't say you had to care, Odd. I said it be in your best interest to care." Odd looked at him as he pushed the last of the pastry in his mouth.

"Then why are you acting like I should care?"

"I don't care if you care or not!" Jeremy looked up and glared at his blonde friend. "Considering X.A.N.A is attacking every chance he gets I figured you would understand the seriousness of the situation and take it in your best interest to listen to me."

"Jeez Einstein, calm down." Odd said as he swallowed the pastry and began licking his fingers.

"My god you are infuriating!" Jeremy said, looking back down at his computer.

"Hey Ulrich?" Odd was looking at the brown haired boy who seemed lost in his own world. "Ulrich… Look it's Yumi!" Odd shouted pointing randomly.

"Where?" Ulrich said, his eyes lit up and he began searching the area for the raven-haired beauty.

Odd began laughing, holding his stomach as he leaned against the bench. "You fell for it!" He continued laughing as small tears of laughter formed in the corners of his eyes.

"That's not funny!" Ulrich said, as his cheeks blushed in a light red.

"It is rather amusing." Jeremy said not looking up from his computer.

"Jeremy!" Ulrich whined.

Odd was still laughing hysterically.

"It wasn't that funny!" Ulrich once again protested. He was about to say something, anything, to stop the laughter but stopped as a certain someone caught the corner of his eye. He turned his head to see Yumi walking across the courtyard. Her books were held close to her chest as she looked at the ground.

Ulrich looked over to his two friends and noticed that they were no longer paying attention to him. He gently stood up and began making his way towards Yumi.

He gently grabbed on to her shoulder and gave her a warm smile as she turned, startled.

"What's up?" He asked noting that she was looking slightly pale and her eyes were somewhat red.

"Oh, hi Ulrich." She smiled at him, but it wasn't her usual smile, it didn't reach her eyes.

"What's wrong?" He asked worry flooding his body.

"I'm so tired." She said, still smiling. He knew she wasn't lying because she was a terrible liar. He couldn't blame her for being tired, either.

Everyday there was a new "pulsation" or Alieta was "sensing" something and Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd found themselves practically living in Lyoko. They were fighting the same monsters over and over. Between reboot, returning to the past, and still attempting school, the four friends were exhausted. Not to mention Jeremy's obsession to find the cure for Alieta. Between the four's schedule Ulrich was surprised that they were all still some what functioning people.

"Hopefully today will be a quiet day." Ulrich gave her a reassuring smile.

"Yeah, one can dream." They both chuckled.

"Hey Ulrich! We have to get to math!" The two turned to see Odd and Jeremy standing near the bench.

"I'll see you after classes?" Ulrich asked as he began turning to head towards his other two friends.

"Of course!" Yumi smiled and began making her way to her own class.

"Let's go Casanova!" Odd said as he began walking to class. Ulrich put his hands in his pocket and looked over his shoulder to watch Yumi continue into her building. He smiled slightly as he quickened his pace to keep up with his two friends.

(Scene 2)

"Any word on X.A.N.A?" Odd asked as he sat next to Jeremy.

"Nothing right now. Alieta says it's pretty quiet. She hasn't even seen a block around."

"Hear that Ulrich?" Odd said leaning towards Ulrich's table. "We might actually get a break today!"

"Yes!" The two high-ived.

Their math teacher walked in and smiled as she stood in front of the class. "Well, today we have a very special student who will be joining us for the rest of the year."

Every body in the math class turned to the door. A girl, not much taller then Jeremy, Odd, or Ulrich walked in smiling. She had dark chocolate hair with milk chocolate eyes. She had an olive-ish skin tone that made her skin shimmer slightly as she walked. Her hair was in two buns on either side of her head with two strands falling on the sides of her face. She wore a light yellow, polo shirt that had a white star embroider on the left side on the shirt. She had a black pelted skirt with a white belt and then a pair of black platforms with knee high white socks. The teacher gently put her hands on her shoulder and smiled at the rest of the class.

"This is Lillian Waters. Now I want you all to be extra nice and hospitable to our new student." The teacher smiled and looked at Lillian. "You can take a seat next to Ulrich, he's the one in the beige shirt.

Lillian smiled at the teacher and nodded. She slowly made her way to the row next to the window and sat in the seat at the second table.

"Now today I want us to review our square roots. Lillian if you don't understand have no fear." The teacher smiled and wrote random equations on the board.

Ulrich watched as Lillian wrote the questions down on a piece of paper and without little to any work wrote the answers next to the problems. His eyes widen as she placed down her pencil and stared at the black board. He looked over to Jeremy and Odd who were both still writing.

"As an extra point on the test next Friday who would like to tell me what the square root of 13657432 is?" The teacher smirked as her students stared at her in wonder. All except Lillian who politely raised her hand. "Lillian?"

"Three thousand, six hundred, and ninety-five point sixty. Rounding to the nearest ten of course."

Jeremy who had begun writing the problem to solve it looked up in amazement along with the other students in the math class.

The teacher looked slack jawed and quickly pulled out her calculator. "My dear child, you're right." She said in pure surprise.

"Does this mean I get a point to my test?" Lillian smiled naively.

(Scene 3)

"I guess she's smart." Jeremy said as the three friends made their way to the park to meet up with Yumi.

"She figured out the square root of 13657432… in her head!"

"So?" Jeremy asked. Odd and Ulrich stared at him as they found Yumi leaning against a tree.

"What's going on?" She asked smiling.

"We have a new student among us." Jeremy said dryly.

"She's like mega-genius! And pretty! And cool!" Odd said quickly. Yumi looked from Odd to Jeremy to Ulrich.

"A new student?"

"She transferred here from America. She seems pretty nice." Ulrich shrugged. He knew not to go further in fear of what Yumi might say of do.

"Can we please get back to the subject of X.A.N.A?" Jeremy said as he finished setting up his laptop.

"What's his problem?" Yumi whispered to Ulrich.

"Lillian, the new girl, figured out a major hard question, in her head, before Jeremy."

"Competition?" Yumi said, cocking her eyebrow.

"Major competition." Ulrich confirmed.

"I don't know why you're bothering with this Jeremy. If there's no attack, there's no attack. I suggest we all get something to eat, relax a little, maybe take a nap, and then get some more food." Odd smiled widely.

"Odd! Something can very well happen and we should stay alert!" Jeremy said as he typed feverishly into the computer.

"You're predicting an unseen future, Jeremy." Yumi tried to reason. "Let it rest."

"But…" Jeremy trailed off as he saw his three friends looking at him. "Fine."

"Thank god!" Odd said. He began heading back towards the school. "Food time!"

"It's always food time with him." Ulrich said. He began following Odd.

"Are you coming?" Yumi asked as she turned to follow the other two boys. Jeremy shook his head.

"I think I'm just going to go to the factory and talk to Alieta for a little while." As he turned he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned and looked at the soft eyes of his friend.

"You'll cure her Jeremy, we have faith in you." Yumi smiled. Jeremy nodded his head finding himself smiling back at her.

"Thanks." They both turned and began heading into opposite directions.

(Scene 4)

Yumi and Ulrich watched as Odd inhaled the food that was in front of him.

"Do you even think he's chewing any of it?" Yumi asked. Ulrich shrugged and shook his head.

"I wouldn't have a clue."

Odd, oblivious to the fact of his two friends, continued stuffing his face with pizza, cookies, rice cakes, cherries, and other various food that was presented to the students at meal time.

"Do you mind if I sit here?"

The group looked up to see Lillian smiling at them. She had a food tray in one had and a group of books in the other.

"Sure!" Odd said, after swallowing, and scooted over on the bench so Lillian could have some room.

"Ulrich and Odd right?" She smiled as she looked at Ulrich. "From math class?"

"Yeah." Ulrich smiled back. "This is Yumi Ishiyama. Yumi this is Lillian Waters."

"Ishiyama? Konnichiwa!" Yumi looked at the girl surprised. "Did I say it right?"

"Yes, you did, very well actually." Yumi said. Ulrich looked as amazed as he had earlier during math and Odd was still stuffing his face.

"I don't know very much Japanese. I'm fluent in French and English though. I know a few other languages but my parents always wanted me to concentrate more on my other subjects." She smiled as she said the explanation with an air of normalcy. As if everyone learned new languages on the weekend.

"You're amazing." Odd said as he stared at her. He had stopped eating right as she begun her explanation.

"Thank you." She smiled at him. "I didn't have any where else to sit, it seems that I'm not being taken in well. Thank you so much for letting me sit with you guys."

"What do you mean not being taken in well?" Yumi asked.

"I guess because of what happened in most of my classes today, answering questions that no one else seemed to know the answer to, our peers named me odd if you will."

"Why would they name you Odd? I'm Odd."

"On more levels then one." Ulrich mumbled as he looked at his friend.

"She means that they think she's a nerd." Yumi said. She then turned and gave a warm smile to Lillian. "Don't worry Lillian, we don't think you're a nerd."

"Thanks, and please, Lilly. I hate my name said so formal." She looked around and then turned back to Ulrich. "Don't you have another friend? Jeremy, I think."

"He had some things to do." Ulrich smiled.

"Like what?" Lilly asked as she took a small bite of her salad.

Ulrich looked at her and then began to scratch the back of his head. "Um…"

(Scene 5)

"Is anything wrong Jeremy?" Alieta asked as she watched Jeremy stare off into thin air.

"Huh? What?"

"I'm sorry, am I interrupting you?" Alieta asked, generally concerned she was indeed bothering Jeremy.

"No, no of course not. I was just thinking." Jeremy smiled and began typing into the computer. "I just can't seem to find an antidote for this virus. X.A.N.A really went all out for this."

"Do you think I could be materialized for a few hours tomorrow?" Alieta asked. Jeremy looked up and smiled.

"Of course you can! After classes I'll come back here and we can spend the afternoon together." He felt his cheeks heat up as his words replayed in his head. "I mean, we, the group, with Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd."

"That sounds like so much fun!" Alieta smiled brightly.

Jeremy smiled as he watched the pink haired girl begin talking about what she was going to do and what she wanted to see.

She's so great. Jeremy could feel how red his cheeks where getting. Nothing could spoil his mood.

(Scene 6)

Ulrich smiled as he and Yumi walked through the woods to get to her house. He had volunteered to walk her home, because she was so tired of course. He gently felt her lean into him as they continued to make their way through the darkening woods.

"Thanks for walking me home." Ulrich felt his cheeks blush as he nodded his head.

"No problem." He whispered.

"I'll see you tomorrow?" She smiled as they got to her doorstep. He nodded his head and gave her a bright smile.

"Of course."