Hey guys! Here's a story that might end up just being a one-shot. I have some ideas about how to make it a full story, but I just want to see how everyone likes this idea. I'm not really sure if I expect anyone to like this, because I picture it more as something on a television screen than as a fanfic. I'll still try it out, though. This first chapter is mostly a documentary Odd made about fighting Lyoko, but the rest of the chapters will not be in the same form. Please review!

Summary: Two years in the future, the battle against Xana has taken a turn for the worse. Xana is becoming more powerful, and the fight is on the verge of becoming a war involving people beyond the small gang at Kadic Academy. Odd decides to document the fight on Lyoko, because he's afraid that they might lose and will need someone else to keep fighting. OxA YxU

If I continue the story it will be about how the fight with Xana becomes a war and about how the gang gets Aelita back.

Odd's documentary playing on television

Odd voicing over in his documentary


Yumi and Ulrich, now sixteen and fifteen, sat down on Ulrich's bed while Odd turned on the television in the room, showing static on the screen. "So what is this thing?" Yumi asked the blonde curiously as she settled herself closer to her boyfriend.

"You'll see," Odd told her, unplugging his digital video camera from his computer. He picked up a cord from the desk and plugged it into both the television and the camera. He pressed 'play' and then sat down on his own bed, rubbing the stomach of his dog Kiwi. "Just watch."

It was a sunny afternoon at Kadic. Students walked through the courtyard, talking and laughing like any normal day. As usual, Sissi Delmas was teasing the school's two self-proclaimed reporters Milly and Tamiya, with Nicholas and Herve watching with smug looks on their faces. A group of three, Ulrich, Yumi, and Jeremie, were further away, talking together. A pair of boys, Theo and Julian, was kicking a soccer ball back and forth. A tall boy named William was flirting with a girl named Emily from his grade. It appeared to be a typical school full of typical teenagers.

Welcome to Kadic Academy. This place seems nice, huh? Well I like to call this place 'home.' I live in a dorm here.

Odd and Ulrich were sitting on their separate beds in their very messy dorm room. The skinny, unusually-dressed blonde boy was scratching a small dog's stomach while his roommate played with his cell phone, glancing every now and then self-consciously at the camera that he knew was set up on the windowsill.

That's me playing with the dog, Kiwi. I'm Odd. No, really, that's my name, but I suppose I do seem a little unusual. The broody guy on the other bed is my roommate Ulrich. Believe it or not, he's not always really serious. He's got a pretty cool sense of humor, and we pull a lot of pranks together. He's my best friend. In fact, I consider him my brother.

Ulrich and Yumi then appeared sitting in the courtyard together one evening. They seemed nervous about something as they talked quietly, holding hands.

That's Yumi. Ulrich has been in love with her since the fourth grade, which is saying something, because he didn't talk to her until he was in sixth grade. Yumi's a year older than us, making her sixteen, but this happened about two years ago, making her fourteen in this. Just so you know, you are now witnessing the first date.

Ulrich blushed immediately as Yumi closed her eyes and leaned into him, but after a moment he shook off his shock and kissed her.

And that was the first kiss. They'll probably kill me for that.

Ulrich's face turned the same deep shade of red as in the video.

Yumi gave Odd a suspicious look. "Odd, were you hiding in the bushes taping us?" she asked with a slight blush.

Odd gave his two friends a sheepish grin. "It was two years ago!" he explained. "I was still immature then. I wouldn't be immature enough to do that now!"

"Well it's not very mature to put it in your new movie!" Yumi said, though she was slightly amused that he even still had that on video after two years. It was actually kind of nice to be able to see that moment again, exactly the way she remembered it.

"Just watch," Odd sighed.

Yumi is another of my closest friends. She's the only one who lives off-campus. She's the one who usually keeps me out of trouble, I think mostly because she's so used to being a big sister that she treats me like a second little brother.

The screen then showed Jeremie sitting in front of a computer in his own dorm room. The computer desk was a bit of a mess, littered with pages copied from books or printed off the computer for research. A framed picture sat amongst the papers on the desk, keeping Jeremie company as he worked.

This brings me to the fourth member of our group, Jeremie. He's the same age as me and Ulrich, but he's about a million times smarter. He's our resident genius.

Jeremie looked at the camera in annoyance. "Odd do you really have to videotape me? I'm trying to do some research."

"Just pretend I'm not here Jer," Odd's voice said cheerfully.

Jeremie sighed and turned back to his computer screen, deciding to ignore his friend's presence. The screen lingered on him a moment longer before the scene changed completely to a park.

A 13-year-old girl with short pink hair was smiling at the camera happily. She had an ice cream cone in one hand while she swayed back and forth on a swing. "We should come to this park more often," she said excitedly. "I've never been on a swing before! This is so much fun!"

Yumi sighed sadly and snuggled up closer to Ulrich. Glancing at Odd, she saw a sad smile on his face.

"We'll have to find some place in Lyoko to set one up," Odd joked.

Aelita giggled as she shook her head. She licked her ice cream and swung her feet in front of her.

That girl is Aelita, probably the most loveable, most beautiful, smartest, sweetest girl in the entire world. She was the fifth member of our little group, but she's been gone for two years.

The screen switched over to thepicture on Jeremie's desk, the drawing Odd had made for Jeremie's birthday a few years before.

We look like your normal, every-day kids, right? Well, if that were the case, this would be a very boring documentary. Fortunately for you… or unfortunately for us… whichever way you choose… I'm going to tell you all about our deep dark secret… Lyoko.

Another room appeared on the screen, but this one was empty except for three tall cylindrical capsules.

Over three years ago, Jeremie stumbled across this place. These three tube things are scanners, but not the kind that copy pictures into computers. These scanners copy people into computers. I know it sounds crazy, but what Jeremie discovered is a virtual world called Lyoko. These three scanners are the way to get in and out of that virtual world. When Jeremie told us all about Lyoko, we thought he'd gone nuts. We let him try to prove it to us though.

The scene once again changed, and the Supercomputer room appeared.

He took us to this room. He turned on the computer, and that was the first time that I saw her… Aelita. She was Lyoko's guardian. She told us about how she shared her virtual world with a program called Xana that was a danger to Lyoko. The reason she had made contact with Jeremie was because Xana was now becoming a threat to our world. She wanted us to shut down the Supercomputer to destroy her and Xana. Jeremie couldn't do that, though, and I was glad when he refused. We made it our mission to protect Lyoko until Aelita was a part of our world.

Odd sat in a chair, now back in his bedroom. He had the camera set up directly in front of him. "Xana started attacking our world, most of his attacks directed at the four of us over here," he said. "We found it pretty easy to fight backm though. Ulrich, Yumi, and I got into the scanners while Jeremie monitored Lyoko from the Supercomputer. We helped Aelita get to the activated towers in Lyoko, and she entered the codes to deactivate them and send us back in time to reverse the damage done.

"It took a little over a year, but eventually, Jeremie materialized Aelita. Our troubles on Lyoko were far from over, though. Xana had given Aelita a virus and we couldn't kill him without killing her too. Research went on as we tried to find a cure. We discovered the name of Lyoko's creator, Franz Hopper, a man who had been a teacher at Kadic Academy before disappearing. We found out that Franz Hopper was actually Aelita's father, and that he was the third inhabitant of Lyoko. We realized that we had a new mission. We had to find Aelita's father. Sadly, Xana's virus took over Aelita before we found her antivirus. We would have given up hope of saving Aelita if we hadn't found Franz soon after that."

Franz Hopper was sitting at the Supercomputer, typing away, accessing restricted files that even Jeremie couldn't get to.

He's the only person left that can deactivate the towers, and luckily he can do it from our world, which allows the rest of us to defend people over here easier. Since we found him, we've also learned a lot more about Lyoko, and hopefully we'll be able to use that information to stop Xana.

"Hey Mr. Hopper," Odd said, making the old man look up inquiringly. "Will you tell a little bit about Lyoko's history?"

Franz looked unsure. "Do you really think it's appropriate to record this information Odd?"

"It's not like Lyoko's going to be a secret much longer if Xana gets any more powerful," Odd said seriously. "Besides, I'm not asking for any classified information, just the general stuff."

Franz was indecisive for a moment before responding. "I suppose that it's alright then…"

"Ok," Odd replied. "So Franz… How did Lyoko come about?"

"I created Lyoko as an experiment years ago," the scientist explained. "It was just something to keep me occupied after my wife's passing. It was never meant to be so real, but as I got wrapped up in it, I realized that I could create a virtual world that was much more than a mere video game."

"And someone found out about it right?"

Franz nodded. "I think that's what always happens to great discoveries. The government learned about it, and they decided to fund my research. I didn't know that they wanted me to turn it into a military weapon. When they ordered me to begin Project Xana I had to do it. I realized how detrimental this could be though, and I tried to escape. I ran away with my daughter, Aelita, and virtualized us both so that we could not be found. It wasn't supposed to last so long though… just a few days. That goddamn government, they'd interfered with my research. Xana had a mind of its own, and he trapped us there…"

Odd was once again sitting in the chair in his bedroom with a sad look on his face. "So Xana's got Aelita on his side now, and we are trying our hardest to save her. The fight is constantly getting worse, but we're going to keep on fighting no matter what."

Odd pressed 'pause' and looked back at his friends. "It's nowhere near finished," he told them. "It's not like I'm making it for entertainment. I just feel like I need to document all of this, and I figured that I should show you guys before I kept making it, just so that you know that I'm doing it."

"Maybe one day, someone outside of our group will actually get to see it," Yumi said, sounding less skeptical then she would have in the past. Xana was much stronger now, and she didn't doubt that he would reveal himself to more people eventually.

Ulrich's phone vibrated and he pulled it out of his pocket, reading the text message he'd just received. "It's Jeremie. We have to go meet him and Franz at the Factory."

"Let's go then," Yumi said as she and Ulrich stood and walked to the door. "Odd?"

"Coming," Odd said as he set down the camera, accidentally pressing 'play.' He stood and followed his friends out of the room as the rest of the video played.

Odd was still sitting in front of the camera, speaking to it. "This is a different kind of movie for me to make. I usually make stupid, cheesy films just for fun. I just decided to do something serious for once. I'm going to document everything about this fight with Xana from now on. I have a feeling this is all going to come to something big, that this fight with Xana's going to become more like a war. If we win, then I guess people will never have to know, never have to see this. But if we lose… Maybe someone will find this… And hopefully they'll be willing to take over for us. If that's the case, I hope that they can save Aelita and maybe someone can tell her one day just how much I love her."


So just tell me what you think. I know that this first chapter was kind of weird, but if I make this a longer story, the rest of the chapters will be written the way I normally write. Please review!