Odd stared out at the bus, which brought in the new students. Some of these were from other parts of Europe, very few were from America. Odd knew it was only minutes until he saw them in the dorms, hanging around or causing trouble like he did. It was also only minutes until Odd would see his little brother here as well. He knew that he dreaded the moment that he sees the red-headed kid walk into the dorm building. Odd sighed, he saw him. Odd didn't hate him or anything, it was just that he was attracted to trouble, and what if he was caught getting away to the factory to fight XANA? Odd shook off the thought, to only receive another thought, the old nicname would come back; Odd Shot. Odd cared for his brother, which was why he begged to hae him go to another school, or at least not have him recognized as his brother. The only part of that the Odd got was that no one at the school except the people Odd tells and the principal would know of him. The principal knowing was a bad idea; he was going to have Odd and his brother share a dorm for a semester, just long enough to let his brother know his way around. The next semester was going to be tourture to Odd. Odd heard a bang on the door.

"Della Robbia, do you have your things?" Odd grabbed his bag and walked out of he door that Jim just opened.

"Yeah. Number 67A1?"

"Correct." Odd headed down the stairs. Figures that he'd get the room. Only smart kids would want the room, nothing near what Odd was. He walked into the large room, which was empty except for the two beds, both were parallel, a lot like the other room Odd had shared with Ulrich, only the view he had before wasn't outside his window now.  There was a knock on the door, Odd knew perfectly who it was.

"Hey Odd!" He turned to see a red haired kid walk ino the room, he was wearing his typical red shirt and mahogany pants.

"Hey Shute." 

    "So your brother is here as well?" Yumi, a japanese girl in the nineth year (eighth grade) asked Odd.

    "Yeah. He's a nice kid an-"

    "So why don't you want him here then?" Ulrich, a kid who had brown hair questioned. Sure he shared a room with Odd since the seventh year, but that didn't mean he was like Odd. They were almost exact opposites, Odd being the jokester of the five of his friend, with Ulrich being the most sarcastic.

    "Back at our other school, the one I told you had the cafeteria that served broth for a week right?" Everyone shook their heads. Even Aelita knew that on his first week at Kadic, he loved the food enough to hug it, which he did every day. "Well, whenever we were together, the both of us were called 'Odd Shot'. I protected my brother, but that didn't mean that-" Odd stared stright past Jeremie, a boy who was in the eighth year with him, seeing a huge swarm of bugs. If anyone knew Odd, they would know that he hated bugs, especially flies.

    "Odd, what is it?" Aelita, a pink haired girl looked to where Odd was staring. But she saw something else. She liked bugs, they wouldn't make her scream. Only falling into the digital sea or something out of the ordinary would make her scream. Everyone looked to what she saw. Aelita saw that the rose bush that Jim planted by the science lab last year was turning grey, stone grey.

    "Guys, I think we need to scram!" Odd ran, to only see his brother go the way that the bugs came from. "Shute! Get back here!" It was like Shute didn't hear what Odd said. Odd chased his brother, who was actually trying to get the attention of the bugs.

    "Hey! Bagu Bagu! Come and get me!" Shute made a face at the swarm, which made it chase him. Odd took this as a chance, distract the "Bagu Bagu", and help get everyone out of Kadic.

    "Bagus! You missed me!" This started the competition between the two, who can distract the Bagu Bagu flies the longest. Odd last had them, until Shute threw his comment up this time.

    "Human got your wings? If not, come and get me!" The Bagu Bagu were going faster than they had before, and were about to get Shute this time.

    "Shute! Look out!" Odd was sure he was too late, as the swarm gathered where his brother stood last. He stood agast at the loss. Odd closed his eyes, he didn't want to see this, nor did he wnt to see his fate. The Bagu Bagu were about to get him, until he was pulled onto something, but soon after, Odd felt something hit his head, right after he heard a gruff voice.

    "Watch it Entango! This kid's tired enough! We don't want him dead!" 

    Odd opened his eyes later, to find that he was in the forest outside of the acadamy. Odd sat up, feeling stiff, as if he rode a metal horse. Odd looked around, trying to figure out what happened. All he remembered was that Shute was attacked by the Bagu Bagu, as he called them. Odd soon saw the manhole that lead to the factory, and started down it. Being alone at the factory was enough to help Odd clear his head, and help him morn for Shute. Not taking his skate board, the lonely trek down to the factory was started.

    "Hey Odd!" Odd turned, to see a red-head boy, the very same one he loathed to see walking around the acadmy, Shute.

    "Shute! Wh-what happened?"

    "I was taken away right before the Bagus got me." Odd was happy for right now, it all was fair to him,  he spooked Millie before, why shouldn't his brother spook him this time?

    "Zapper Zaku said they were down here, hiding. Zako.

    "I bet getting both of them would put us on his good side. Zako." Around the corner came two stouty robots, both of them wore puke green armor, and had a single, glowing, red eye. If it weren't for the fact that they were short, and sounded like a cow, they would have been a nightmare coming to life. But with the voices that they had, and the fact that they were as tall as Kiwi, they might as well have dunce hats on them. They were a laughing stock, if it was the time to be.

    "Shute, what are those things?"

    "Would you believe me if I said the junk mom had to kick me to take out to the can?"

    "No."

    "Then you don't believe the truth." 

    "I still don't believe that or the fact that you and Nana are being homeschooled. How am I supposed to believe that this is the trash you take out?"

    "I have a bit of help." Odd rolled his eyes, not wanting to continue, having Shute's 'junk' finding them.

    "Zako! There they are! Zako!" One of the two saw them, now screaming and pointing it out to his partner.

    "Shute, what are we supposed to do?"

    "My best idea for a case like this: run before they release the Bagu Bagu!" Odd took off running, along with Shute in tow. "Odd! Where are we going?"

    "To probably the safest place here at Kadic! The facotry!" The manhole that lead to the factory was nearby. The only thing was that there was something, sleeping, right in front of the ladder. Something not human, something that was a robot. A large one.

    Odd almost shrieked like a girl when he saw the "thing" move, the thumps loud as the chatter of the two robots.

    "Get them! Zako! Don't Let them get away! Zako!"

    "Zako! Hurry up! Zako!" Shute calmly turned to the "thing", which now had made its way behind them.

    "Stand back Shute." Odd did shriek, at the army of robots that had gathered right before them, armed and ready to fire at his head if nessesary. The "thing" which knew Shute, fired ten rapid shots, which not only scared and blown away the army, but also blasted the armor off ten of them. They shrieked like girls then, and Odd could do was laugh at the sight of them. "You two hurry! Something's up with Baku!"

    "Right!" Shute turned to Odd. "We better get away before Baku finds us then!" When Shute climbed up the latter, Odd looked back at the sewer. Now coming was something that looked like the thing that saved them, but with red armor. It had a "V" on its head, which slightly split on the ends. The eyes, which were pure yellow now, flashed with a bull's eye, black as the inky sewers, which also spiked through.

    "Good timing," Odd muttered to himself. He scrambled up the latter. "I think "Baku" is coming! Grab a rope!" Odd grabbed one of the braided ropes, and swung across, quickly throwing it back to Shute. Odd took off, getting into the elevator. when the elevator opened for Odd to get out, he was in a computer room, in the very center was a holographic monitor, which was now displaying a hologram of a floating island, many parts of the island floating in the sea. The island took the shape that appeared to the normal eye of being four parts, and maybe easy to explore.

    By the projector, was a giant computer, with many thick wires flowing from it to the floor, and others just scattered up to the rafters. On the computer chair, was Jeremie, who was typing away on the keyboard, constantly staring at the a small part of the screen.

    "Ulrich and Aelita are already in."

    "'Kay. Warn Yumi, there's something in the sewers called a "Baku", and it was close to getting us."

    "Us?" Jeremie's question was answered, when Shute tumbled out of the elevator. Odd and Jeremie heard him grumble about something called SDG, but they both turned back to the situation they had.

    "I'll head to the scanners, Shute, don't move! You can go back up and meet Baku if you wa-"

    "I'll be fine!" Odd knew that Shute didn't want to face something like those robots again, and he chuckled as the elevator pulled him down to the scanner room. Yumi was already walking into a scanner. Odd did the same, and he heard Jeremie's voice loud and clear.

    "Scanner, Yumi, scanner, Odd." Odd closed his eyes as his mind began to drift to the virtual world of Lyoko. "Virtualizing, Yumi, virtaulizing, Odd." Odd didn't hear the rest, as the grounds of the desert region begun to come into his sight. Odd landed on the ground on his two feet, and two paws.

    Shute looked around the room, it was just as technologicly advanced as the SDG training room, but not as dark. Jeremie was talking away into his blue tooth, and occasionally Shute would hear a reply. He didn't take too much notice in the conversation that Jeremie was having. It wasn't until a while later that Shute noticed that Jeremie was talking to him.

    "Shute! Wake up! I need you to check to see if Baku really has entered the factory. Aww, shoot." Shute saw a warning on the computer. "I can't read half of this!" Jeremie rested his head in his hand. He then put the blue tooth back on, saying something to the person he was talking to. Shute read the screen over Jeremie's shoulder. Everything but the warning were in French, which he had to learn with his mom before she made him come over to Kadic. The warning was purely English.

    "Scanner battery is running low; check power supply." Shute read aloud.

    "What?" Jeremie turned to the red-head.

    "Something is up with the scanner power supply!" Shute ran to the elevator, which pulled him down to the scanner room. Shute gasped, as he saw two robots down there, Baku and his friend. "Captain! Get him down!" The white armored robot nodded, and wrestled the possesserd Baku onto the floor. Shute ran behind the scanners, which appeared to be cut by a sword. Or more presice, a nice katana slice. Shute held together the cut cables, as he heard the scanners once more come to life.

    "Captain? What are you doing?! Get off!" Shute heard some sure blows, a thunk, then more small thunks. Shute turned to see Baku, his yellow eyes with their normal pupils. "Captain's out cold for a while, would you explain?" Shute sighed. He explained what he knew, which was that this was the safest place while the robotic samurai was possessed.

    The whir of the scanners took Shute away from his conversation. From the front of the scanner peeked a head, which had yellow hair that was spiked up, Odd.

    Odd only knew that the masses of Krabs and Kankerlots were tough. He left the scanner, panting, giving room for Aelita to come out. After aseeing Shute and Baku talking, he knew that the deactivation of the Lyoko tower, the only gate to the world of Earth that was open to XANA, was successful.

    "I think we need some introductions, Shute." Everyone gathered in the main computer room, where Jeremie was complaining about the only warning that was written in English. "Start us off Shute." Odd stated simply. Another one of the robots, this one carrying the looks of a midieval knight and being blue and white, had joined.

    "Guys, this is Captain." Shute motioned to the first of the robots that Odd had encountered, he was the one who saved them in the sewers on the way to the factory.

    "Nice to meet you." Shute pointed to the new one.

    "And this is Zero, the Winged Knight as he's often called." A girl ran from the elevator, her hair was straight and blonde. She wore a blue sweater, which was the color of Zero's armor. Her pants were of a darker blue, almost black. She turned to the Lyoko warriors and groaned.

    "Don't tell me that you're doing introductions without me!" Odd knew that she was one of the new girls, who had a place to live nearby. Shute groaned louder than she did.

    "This is Marie-Merie. She's the one who helps Zero when he needs help."

    "It's not that I'd let m'lady get hurt in battle-" Marie-Merie hit the cool-tempered robot in the head with a paper fan.

    "Don't ever call me 'm'lady' again!"

    "Cool it you two, we're here for introductions, not a battle." Ulrich got inbetween the two, who were still bickering. 

    "And you guys probably know Baku."

    "Bakunetsumaru." Baku corrected him. "Baku for short." Captain was looking around supiciously.

    "Are you sure this place is safe?" He asked scepticly.

    "Only from XANA's attacks, which happen quite often, why?" Jeremie asked the gundam.

    "Cause we're here!" What looked like a giant red Zako came in, and he was holding Marie-Merie up by her shirt collar. 

    "Let me go, you over-grown Zako scrapmetal!" The girl fought fro freedom from it, but she failed to do so.

    "Get him Captain!" Shute yelled. The gundam pulled out his sword, until he heard another cry. 

"Help!" Everyone but Marie-Merie, who was fighting her way out of the giant Zako's grip, and the red Zako, who was holding the fan Marie-Merie was flailing around and the girl, looked towards where the cry came from. Another giant red Zako was holding Yumi prisoner. This one, however, looked heavily armed, but not protected as the first one was.

"Duh. Zapper! I got Merie!" The first one, who Odd now knew as Zapper, was yelling at the other one.

"Dom, you idiot! I have the real Merie! You just have some stupid eighth grader!" Yumi tried her best to swing up a kick, right in the giant red eye that Dom had. Everytime though, her legs were grabbed, and put back down. "Fine, we'll leave her for the Bagu Bagu. And as for you Gundam," Zapper turned to Zero, Captain, and Baku. "You'll all become scrap metal!" Yumi was tired from flailing for freedom, Marie-Merie was knocked out.

"Captain, Zero, Bakunetsumaru! Help!" Yumi yelled, hoping that maybe she could shatter the weapons that Dom and Zapper had, knowing that a cry like that was a fantasy. The cry was, but not the attacks that came upon Dom and Zapper. It was to Odd, like watching a flying fireball. The fireball, slammed first into Dom, who fired all his weapons at once. Odd went into hiding behind the computer, until he felt a claw grab him on the shoulder. The clawed hand dragged him away from the scene, which he couldn't see, he blacked out in fear, and the blow to his head.

Yumi shivered, was the fireball a way that Zapper had planned to destroy her? She couldn't fear, she could punch XANA in the face, no, Death, in the face, and not be worried. But now she was, and she probably was going to get her split-second chance of throwing the punch at Death. Yumi only felt warmth at her side. She was safely on the ground, the fireball heading towards Zapper. Dom was on the floor, unconsious. Yumi didn't know how a robot could be unconscious, but she could swak a kitsune's tail in his face and Dom wouldn't move. Marie-Merie was safely on the ground too, the fireball hovering above the two captors. Zapper was shaking in his armor, as well as Dom, who just was dumb enough to wake up at the moment. The two just stared at the giant "X", which now was forming from the fireball's flames. A cry for help, Odd's, came from behind the computer that Jeremie used. The first fire X scorched the first two robots, the second one seared who ever had Odd. A blue robot, like the first two, scrambled out of the room, with the other two, and went up the elevator. The fireball seemed to rest, revealing a shocked Bakunetsumaru.

"How?" The gundam looked at himself, mostly at his hands. "Could it be?"

"Could it be what?" I asked the strange robot, I was suspicous of him, especially since he scared the bejeevies out of me. I was scared of nothing, but that one attack that he did. Shute's eyes went wide.

"No way. Baku has a soul drive too?" Zero landed on the ground, with a shivering/frightened of heights Aelita. The blue gundamnow turned to release his fury.

"HOW COME WE NEVER KNEW OF IT?!"

"I NEVER KNEW THAT I EVEN HAD ONE IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Marie-Merie was rubbing her temples.

"Oh, geeze. Cut it out you two. We have to call it a day. We'll tell you guys the rest tomorrow after classes." Marie-Merie turned to the Lyoko Warriors.

"Don't bring along the Bagu Bagu and you got a deal!" Everyone, who was Shute or a gundam, laughed. The rest of us needed to know just a little more than we already knew.

Now......it's time for  

Zako 1: We're back! Zako!

Zako 2: And this time, we've got ourselves a bigger screen!

Zako 3 (the low voice one): Where did you want me to put the screen that was big as Zapper Zaku's head?

Zako 2: Behind where we stand! Anyways, this time, there are five, five kids who talk about this wierd XANA thingy.

Zako 1: And did you see how mad Baku looked when it possessed him? It was like the day we put Zero's make up on Dom's face.

Zako 2: Wait.... does Zero even wear make up?

Zako 1: Well, I found it in Zero's room.

Zako 2: YOU PUT PRINCESS MAKE UP ON HIM! *thrashes about*

Zako 3: *appears on the big screen behind the Zakos* HI!

Zako 1 & 2: Eeeeek!

Zako 3: What? Anyways, time's up!

The Zako Zako hour ends.