A/N: A request for CasperxDaisyxRa
Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko
"Well it's official you've got the flu Odd" Yolanda said taking the thermometer out of the flushed boys mouth and examined it.
"Aw man" Odd whined.
"Don't worry, if you rest for a few weeks you'll be back on your feet in no time" Yolanda said with a sweet smile and left odd by himself.
Odd groaned and moved in an attempt to sit up but he felt too crumby to even get his back off his bed.
"Hey Odd" Aelita said gently poking her head from behind the door and then entered followed by the others.
"Hey guys" Odd said groggily letting a weak smile show.
"We heard you had the flu, tough break" Yumi shrugged.
"Look on the bright side at least you get to skip Mrs. Hertz class" Ulrich chuckled nudging Odd lightly in the arm.
"I think I'd rather be in class" He huffed.
Suddenly a beeping sounded out, Jeremie retrieved his laptop from his backpack and flipped it open looking at it intensely.
"X.A.N.A' up to no good again, He's activated a tower in the desert sector"
Odds expression instantly lit up upon hearing this and leapt out of bed as if he had been magically healed.
"Alright lets get to it" Odd cheered heading for the door only to have a pair of strong hands grab him by the underarms and another to grab his legs and carry him back to his bed where he was dropped and covered by the blankets.
"STAY!" Odd looked up at his friends who looked at him strictly.
"But-" Odd protested.
"Your sick Odd and that will effect your performance on Lyoko or make you worse" Jeremie pointed out.
"Fine" Odd pouted and buried his head under the sheets.
Taking this as a sign to leave before Odd somehow managed to change their minds the Lyoko warriors took their leave.
Odd sulked as he heard the door close he was touched that his friends put his health before the fate of the world but fighting X.A.N.A' monsters and William now would be all the medicine he needed right now and after a few minutes of trying to get some sleep Odd finally gave up, got out of bed, changed into his day clothes and went out the door. He was going to the factory and help on Lyoko. The others couldn't tell him what to do after all they weren't his parents.
Odd weakly made his way to the boiler room and through the sewers he walked instead of using his skateboard he didn't want to risk falling off and losing it in the sewers, he was just barely able to lift himself up the ladder that led to the bridge and dragged his weak carcass along the bridge down to the factory floor and entered the elevator, when he got to the bottom floor his stomach churned as it jolted to a halt. When the door opened he was met with a very pissed Samurai, Geisha and Scientist.
"What the hell are you doing here!?" Yumi asked angrily her words as cold as ice.
"Look I now you told me to stay but-" Odd was cut off for a second time.
"No!" Ulrich snapped. "Your going back to your bed even if I have to drag you every step away!" Ulrich stomped over to the blonde-purple haired Italian boy and without so much as a grunt of effort hauled him off the metallic floor and over his shoulder one arm wrapped around his waist and the other holding onto his wrist.
"Hey!" Odd protested his cheeks going red from both his fever and the humiliation of being picked up like he weighed nothing.
"Hold up!" Jeremie yelled as Ulrich was about to carry the squirming cat boy back to the elevator. "You two have been devirtualized and Aelita is all alone on Lyoko we have no choice"
Ulrich sighed in exasperation and shifted Odd's body so now he was piggybacking him and carried him down the hatch to the scanners and placed him inside one.
"When this is over you and I are going to have a talk" He said darkly his arms crossed firmly across his chest.
Odd gulped as the scanners doors closed definitely not something to look forward too.
"Transfer Odd, Scanner Odd, Virtualization"
With a surge of light Odd was on Lyoko in his cat suit and he felt great. he looked around and saw that he was in the desert region, he also saw Aelita who looked just as displeased as the others.
"Hello princess" He grinned.
"Oh Odd you are unbelievable" She huffed. "The towers up ahead but it's heavily guarded by a trio of Tarantulas" Aelita said pointing to the glowing red tower.
Odd set into motion not waiting for his vehicle to show up he thought the exercise would do him good.
Upon reaching the tower the Tarantulas opened fire on him with their duel lasers but Odd sprung into action leaping into the air right over one of the beasts and fired one of his arrows smack dab in the middle of the beasts weak point making it combust and after doing a somersault in midair landed where the monster had once stood right between the other two who had been foolish enough to shoot at him, so with another somersault Odd dodged the lasers causing them to rocket at the opposing Tarantulas destroying them.
Aelita gasped having arrived just in time to see Odd finish off the two beast.
"Wow you should get sick more often if you're able to take out three Tarantula's at once" Aelita smirked.
"One of my many talents princess" Odd winked completely forgetting about the mother of all lectures he was going to get later.
Aelita rolled her eyes and strolled past him and into the tower.
"Odd heads up! William is heading your way!" Jeremie called through the intercom.
"Bring it on!" Odd yelled and no sooner had he said that that a blot of black smoke came right at him and from it emerged a familiar face.
"You're mine!" William growled in his distorted voice.
Odd smirked but his face dropped when he saw the insignia on his chest glow red and before he could arm his arm at the warrior a beam shot from his chest and hit Odd.
"Odd! What happened you just lost all your arrows!?" Jeremie asked but Odd didn't answer he suddenly felt like he was back on earth and sick with the flu again he didn't even have enough energy to get up when the beam knocked him to the ground.
"For X.A.N.A!" William yelled and with one fowl swoop wrapped a strong arm around Odds sides trapping his arms at the side and started carrying him effortlessly to the edge of the Desert Sector.
"JEREMIE HELP!" Odd screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Aelita! Help Odd!" Jeremie called.
Odd felt a tinge of relief as Aelita emerged from the tower angelic wings spread and speeding towards William with a pair of energy fields in each hand.
However William was quick to react and summoned his sword and repelled both orbs off his sword and sent a blade beam her way.
Aelita swirled out of the way tried to get closer but it was too late William threw himself into the sea with Odd still in his vice like grip.
"NO!" Aelita screamed diving after them but no matter how fast she went she couldn't catch up and could only watch in horror as the two plunged into the digital sea where a pillar of light erupted from it's depths.
"Aelita! What happened? Where's Odd?" Jeremie called.
"I'm sorry Jeremie" Aelita said in between sniffles. "I was too late he's gone"
(Earth)
The factory was silent the only thing that could be heard was Aelita's crying, she was being hugged by Yumi who was just barely able to fight back her own tears. Jeremie was sitting in his chair his head in hands. Ulrich was on the other side of the just staring coldly at the wall.
"It's all my fault I should have done more to help him" Aelita sobbed her tears dripping onto the steely floor.
The silence was shattered as Ulrich started punching the wall and screaming bloody murder.
"DANM BRAT! WHY COULDN'T HE HAD JUST DONE AS HE WAS TOLD AND STAYED BACK!? I'M THE STRONGEST WARRIOR ON LYOKO WHY COULDN'T I HAVE BEEN THE ONE!? IT'S NOT FAIR!"
"Ulrich...stop" Yumi's voice trembled told back the tears. She walked over to Ulrich and stopped him from punching the wall so he wouldn't wind up breaking his knuckles and supported him as he collapsed to the floor and broke down into tears.
"What are we going to do?" Aelita asked, wrapping her arms around herself.
"We're going to get him get back" Jeremie said lifting his head from his hands. "I'll work day and night till I find Odd and bring him back"
"You're right now's not the time for mourning!" Aelita said firmly wiping her tears away.
"What do we do first?" Ulrich asked getting to his feet with new vigour.
"We go to sector five every chance we get and we'll retrieve as much data as we can and with it we'll find a way to get Odd back"
"Lets do it!" Yumi nodded her head.
(Unknown Location)
Odd woke up in a strange room it was a dark shade of red with wires visible in the walls and when he looked around he could see the virtual sea it was like being in an aquarium only there was no doors and only glass.
"Where are am I?" Odd asked himself as he sat up and found that he had been lying on a circular bed he also realized that his flu was gone. "This just keeps getting more and more weird"
"Still as dense as ever I see"
Odds head snapped up to see a hole in the ceiling as a blotch of black smoke poured from it and right towards him. Odd quickly back flipped off the bed and aimed his arm at the smoke only to realize that he was still out of arrows.
"Who are you?" Odd asked trying and failing to keep the fear out of his voice.
"You've come to know me as X.A.N.A but YOU know me better than anyone isn't that right Odin?"
Odd flinched as the smoke took form and there he saw a very familiar form he take shape:
It was a boy who looked barely any older than Odd he wore armour similar to Williams's but it had red circuit lines and he had pointed shoulder blades, but the most notable features was his shoulder length brown hair with blue highlights around the edges.
"Xander?" Odd whispered.
"It's good to see you again Odd" The boy who's name was Xander smiled softly.
A/N: R&R plz X3