This wasn't supposed to have happened.

"You sure he's here?" Yumi asked from her Skid pod.

"P-positive."

Jeremie had been forced to join them on Lyoko out of necessity, and X.A.N.A had seen this as the perfect opportunity to strike.

"Don't worry princess," Ulrich said.

"Yeah, we'll find him," Odd tried to reassure. It was hard. Jeremie was the only one ever to save someone from the digital sea. But that was the problem.

Below, a data figure raced through the digital sea. He knew they'd never find him. Ever.

Decades after they abandoned the search, he remained.

Forever lost.