'K, I had an excuse for not writing for eternity, but as I'm sure no one REALLY cares, I'm just going to get on with the fic. Oh yeah. Someone e- mailed me asking if Odd was going to be gay...To that person (who also asked if Odd was from America) I simply wish to say, read the chapter more closely and read my author's notes, you'll learn a lot. Now! On with the fic!

Odd, Jeremy, and Ulrich ran down the trembling halls and out onto the school grounds, the whole area seeming to be caught in a minor earthquake, and as many people were running too, they were easily able to run into the factory without being noticed. "Jeez, Xana really did it this time, what's he got, a freaking horde of elephants?!?" Odd seemed to shake even more than the walls around him as he exploded in true cat-like fury.

"No, Odd." Jeremy shook his head once as they ran into the computer room, "I'd say some kind of Tyrannosaurus...either that, or something extremely fat..." They all paused for a moment, Jeremy in his chair of computer goodness, and Odd and Ulrich with one foot in their pods to imagine an obese T-rex feebly trying to catch them. "Heheheheh..."

Well, after that disturbing yet hilarious mental picture, Odd and Ulrich stepped into their pods and Jeremy entered the coordinates. "Okay guys, ready or not! Transfer!" So our jolly crew of heroes entered the virtual really and started running.

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Anna looked around, frantically searching for a way out of the building. The building wasn't looking like it would hold up well, and she didn't think that hiding under one's desk was going to help anyone in this situation. One of the windows shattered suddenly, and she was off, jumping clear of the classroom without so much as a scrape from the sharp glass.

Once outside, she looked around until she spotted a girl running into the forest. "Well, that's suspicious alright!" She muttered to herself as she followed the girl in black. Everyone knew to stay in open areas during an earthquake. She stumbled a bit as another tremor shook through the earth, and when she looked up again, the girl was gone. "What the-? Damnit!" Closer examination, though, showed a manhole quite wide enough for a kid to get through, so of course, she hopped right in.

Landing at the bottom without so much as a grunt, she followed the girl, who seemed too worried to notice her. They climbed up some more steps, then entered an old factory that had obviously been closed down a long while ago. The girl walked over to the elevator and stepped in. Anna ducked out of site, and as the elevator started moving down, jumped silently onto the top. The elevator stopped, and after the girl had gotten out, Anna opened the emergency exit, and entered the elevator, slipping through the doors just as they were shutting. "It's times like these that I'm glad that I tagged along with Odd." Hiding behind a crate, she looked on to one of the craziest things she had ever seen.

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Odd and Ulrich had just come into site of the tower when a small horde of spider-like things attacked them. "Aaaand the welcoming committee has arrived!" Shouted Odd gleefully as he hopped into the fray, attacking anything that moved. In a matter of seconds, the horde was a cloud of data, swirling around aimlessly. Odd sighed...and choked on the data. "Ack! Urg, well aside from the choking, that was REALLY easy."

Ulrich shook his head, he had fought and struggled against a small portion of the pack, and had half of his life points drained, he didn't understand how Odd did it. "Well, there's the tower, Odd, do your stuff!" Jeremy's nervous voice floated out of nowhere, but was suddenly changed to that of relief. "Oh, Yumi! Your okay! Odd is heading to the tower now, so you can just sit back, you encounter any trouble?"

Odd had already left for the tower, so Ulrich decided to sit around and listen to the conversation. Ever since Odd had gotten there, their crisis' had become simple 'things that are stupid'. Even Odd, who was still caught up in the whole idea of a virtual world, was starting to complain of the repetitiveness. If they wanted to, they could even go on vacations because Odd had made a portable pod, and Jeremy had outfitted his computer with a surveillance system long ago.

Coming back to the land of the mentally stable, Ulrich tuned into the conversation. "-A new student in class today, that girl Odd bumped into the other day!" This voice was obviously Jeremy's. "Oh really? Did he like her?" The emphasis on like made it very obvious what the two were thinking, "Oh yeah, they hit it off immediately!" He could hear snickering.

You see, all three of these children met each other on a 'make your own web page' assignment, and they had chosen a matchmaking theme, they just still have the slight habit of picking out possible couples...It'll wear off someday... So ANYWAY! Suddenly there was a noise and a new voice entered the fray. "Are you guys, who have JUST met me, trying to pair me up with your friend?!? And what is all this anyway?!"

Ulrich, Jeremy, and Yumi gasped. "A-Anna!" All three said in unison, just then, a voice echoed around them, "Code.... Lyoko.... Hacking Complete" And a bright light blinded them.

-Flashback thingy-

Anna walked down the halls, searching for the lab where her injured friend was being monitored. It had been an accident, Odd had been taken to be examined by scientists around the world, and she had been allowed to come to, but as she was crossing the street with Odd, a car had come right at her. He had gotten her out of the way, but taken the blow himself. She cringed slightly, remembering the scene as Odd was sent flying, twirling through the air before landing heavily on his side a few yards away.

Her eyes started to water up, but she wiped the tears away before entering the code to access the lab. Walking in, she noticed the scientists talking in a circle, and the empty tube that should have held Odd. "Um...excuse me? Can you tell me where my friend is?" She asked timidly, tugging on one of the scientists' lab coats. "Uh, your...friend?" The man looked down at her before the chuckling of a few of the other's drew both their attention.

"She means project O. D. D., she's the one that enhances his personality drive." A young woman stepped forward and crouched down to Anna's eye level. "He has to go away for a while honey, but he'll be back soon!" "Really?" Hope filled eyes looked up at the woman, "Of course!" And the girl was content, because Odd had never let her down before.

-End flashback thingy-

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So? How was that? I put in some Lyoko, and I introduced some more of Anna and Odd's pasts! I hope you enjoyed, and I promise to put in at least one new chapter before school restarts! See ya!
Raifiel