Note: Once again, thank you for reading this. It means the world to me. I hope you enjoy the next chapter. Thanks for reading.

"No issues found at most towers, I still have to check over tower nine..." Roaming through the forest region felt like a dejavu moment. The time it was wandering around this place before didn't feel like it was ten years ago. It only felt like it was at least an hour ago. That's why it was so hard for the Daemon to believe that ten years had went by.

It ran through the large tree trunks, climbed the steps to one of the towers and even fell through a hole to get to a different part of the region. It was simple to find each tower thanks to the map in its head and even with certain obstacles created to bring uniqueness to the world, the Daemon could never say that it hated going through a repeated pattern to get to certain towers. Though, it would weakly agree that it hated that it took hours to get to certain areas of Lyoko. Even with the towers as a way to get to places "faster", the length to get to each tower felt like an eternity.

"No bugs, no errors... at least the shut down did not affect anything as far as the eye can see," It murmured, walking along on its two legs after it got back to the "main route" of the sector, "I can't say the same for all the towers just yet."

Hopefully Maya was fairing well by herself, it would not go back until it finished inspecting all of the Forest Sector. Calculating in its head on where the ninth tower was, it went back on all fours and took off in its run. It was left in its thoughts, which were little bubbles of wonderment like 'How did she get here?' and 'Was she something else that the Professor was creating?'

Those questions lead to the program over-complicating matters while it focused on its main objective. Where was the Professor? How did Jeremie arrive to maintain control of the supercomputer? And why was the supercomputer shut off in the first place?

It was caught up in its thoughts that it didn't hear the click-clank of tiny footsteps or the thin, drilling noise of something reloading. Its stomach was directly hit with a laser as the pew! sound echoed around the empty area. "Ouch!" It cried, rolling around the ground. Its stomach sparked, the data adjusting to the damage dealt by the little cockroach creature that the daemon finally saw in the corner of its eye. "Ugh, you again?" It spat, resting one of its paws on its injured stomach.

The monster drew closer, a red ring beginning to glow on its face, "Not again!" The Daemon shouted, raising its paws to develop its gauntlets. With the six shots of his arrow-launching gauntlet, the creature exploded into red-white bits of data. It grimaced at the destruction, dismissing the gauntlets, "I hate doing that. Why are these creatures attacking me?"

Then, a little thing bubbled in the back of its head after the little fight it entered. Like a little signal went off and it wanted to be answered. Doing so required it to stop moving forward and it soon was standing in the middle of the wide land of the Forest Sector. It placed a hand out at the air and suddenly, a familiar blue screen appeared in front of him. Soon following was Jeremie's triumphant voice saying, "And what do you call this, huh? A program for spray painting doors?" On the screen displayed Jeremie, a bit shorter than last time with another boy. This boy had dark brown hair with chocolate brown eyes, dressed in a green jacket which rested over a tan shirt. It looked like a permanent frown rested on his face, as the boy quirked an eyebrow. In a little square in the corner of the screen, its amber eyes caught sight of Maya who had binary code in the back of her.

"Hello there, Jeremie!" Maya's voice emitted and the Daemon could see her lips move. "Oh! And the Daemon too! Nice to see you're fairing well!"

"Uh," Unable to think of a good response, it responded lamely, "Yes, it is I."

Jeremie's crystal blue eyes gazed at the screen and this time, a giant grin graced his face, "Oh! I contacted both of you this time! That is great!"

"Who's the girl with the pink hair? And who's the guy with the crazy hair?" The brunette questioned, crossing his arms. It was a newcomer, it suspected. It hadn't heard of the boy when Jeremie established contact with it and by the sounds of it, Maya wouldn't know the kid either.

Before the Daemon could introduce itself, Jeremie replied for it, "The girl with the pink hair is Maya, the cat-kid is the Overwriting Debugging Daemon. They are forms of artificial intelligence's who live on Lyoko. The Daemon is there to repair programming in Lyoko but we don't know what Maya is there for."

Chocolate eyed boy shook his head, "Don't mess with me, you programmed them right?"

Maya immediately denied it, "No! I woke up the moment Jeremie restarted the supercomputer. I don't know who I am. My memory has been erased."

"For me, I was deactivated moments before the shutdown of the supercomputer. I was restarted once Jeremie turned the supercomputer back on." The Daemon murmured, placing its paws on its chin. It was tempted to sit down and continue the conversation like that, but if there was one cockroach creature that attacked him then there must be more.

"Maya has to hide in some kind of tower. As soon as she leaves it, she gets attacked monsters!" It looked like that the monsters weren't just after the Daemon. Grimacing, it replayed the moments before its first shutdown. It looked like something was the cause of their creation, but it couldn't think of it one bit! "You gotta believe me, Stern! This is an incredible discovery!"

"Let's say it is," Stern replied, walking away. It was hard to see the boy at that point and the Daemon leaned in a little closer to try to get a better view. It didn't help, though, "What if... what if it's just some kind of giant video game?"

"Then it's a very dangerous game! My robots are programmed just to go fetch a ball! Don't forget they just tried to kill me a little bit ago, you saw that! What's more, the moment they attacked some kind of logo popped up on my computer screen! The same one the monsters have on Lyoko!"

A bitter laugh left Stern's lips, "This gets better and better... Do you mean that the virtual thing that attacked Maya-"

"And me," It decided to comment, "Those creatures attacked me just a bit ago. I guess these guys don't like other AI's."

Stern looked at it, humming thoughtfully as he continued on, "That attacked Maya and Odd, also wants to kill you?"

"That's what it looks like." Jeremie confirmed.

The Daemon raised a paw, "Quick question before you go on, Stern. What's odd?"

"Well, that's you." Stern pointed directly at the screen, "One, your acronym is O.D.D., that spells Odd. Two, you look like you're part cat and part human. Three, your colors are purple, pink, white and yellow which are weird colors. So, you should be called Odd. By the way, my name isn't Stern. It's Ulrich."

"Odd," The program tested its name, enjoyment fluttering around in its chest as a warm feeling, "That's a nice name. Better than being called Daemon, I suppose. Also, nice to formally meet you, Ulrich."

Ulrich looked away from the computer to stare at Jeremie, spinning in the computer chair, "Yeah yeah, what I was saying was that if this is so dangerous then you should shut down the supercomputer and call the police, Belpois."

"Okay," Jeremie agreed, "But first I want to help Maya understand what she's doing on Lyoko."

"Say what?"

Jeremie sighed, "I really want to help her. And if my theory's right, we can materialize both her and Odd right here on Earth."

Ulrich spun in the chair again, another one of his bitter chuckles escaping his lips, "Oh that's too much... what makes you think you can?"

"Oh you'll see, Stern." Jeremie waved it off, turning to fully look at the supercomputer screen again, "Come on, I'll show you the room below. And as for you two, I'll talk with you later." With one last wave, Jeremie severed the connection he originally set up. It was just Maya and it.

"So, how far are you with your scans?" Maya asked.

Odd thought it over before he replied, "Well, most of its done. All I have to do is check over tower nine and then I can safely say the shutdown has not affected the Forest Sector. It'll be just a bit longer before I meet up with you again. I'll see you later, Maya."

"Same to you too, Odd."

The familiar buzz in his chest appeared again and the program found it off-putting that he enjoyed the name so much. It was just a name, after all. Why was it so exciting to hear?

Shaking off the warm feeling, Odd took off on all fours again, "Come on come on... the distance isn't that great," It murmured to itself as a mini-pep talk, "Just a little bit more to the north. One last tower to check. Let's get this over with." Back to work, it went off to track down the ninth tower. It climbed over the large log pieces using its nails, crawled underneath a fallen branch and even slid down one of the tunnels.

A couple of minutes had passed by before it saw something blue in the sky. A bright light blue that it almost didn't see it if the white light behind it hadn't suddenly appeared, "What is that...?" The light blue sketched something out, looking more and more like a person. Odd squinted its eyes, watching as splashes of warm colors decorated the person. The person took form of a boy, one that was becoming familiar to see... "Ulrich?"

Ulrich fell out of the sky, his butt being the first thing to make contact with the chestnut and sandy brown land. Odd took a good look at his form, noting that he wasn't dressed in the green jacket and tan shirt like he was earlier. Instead, he dressed in a kimono that was tied to his waist with a design of a demon on the back, armor on his right arm and knees. His head had a yellow band wrapped around it, tied at the back. His legs were covered in a thin cloth with fiery marks at the bottom edges, the toe cloth colored a lighter shade of grey as they were divided into two with black sandals covering them. He wore an undershirt with black and dark green and very long gloves covered his arms. A small rope wrapped around the bottom part of his waist that held his katana sheathe firmly to his side, "Ouch!" He winced, bringing himself to a stand in a matter of seconds.

Odd waved, "Uh, hello there Ulrich. Nice to see you drop in."

Ulrich looked over the program, then looked at himself, "Yeah... I guess I did drop in. Jeremie! I guess you were right! The virtualization process does work!"

"I told you so. Have faith in me." Sounding smug, Jeremie's voice echoed from above, "And look! You've met up with Odd already!"

"Did you plan for this?" Odd questioned. It didn't know that they had a meeting point set up or else it would have lingered longer in this area instead of pressing on.

The samurai shook his head, "No, he didn't. We got into a bit of a squabble about the supercomputer and the whole virtualization. So he dared me to go into the scanners and prove that it doesn't work. I agreed and well..." He gestured to himself, "Here I am."

"How did you know it'd work, though?"

"It was more luck than anything. Plus, it's the only code that has really functioned properly so far."

Ulrich's head whipped up to the sky, "...you didn't know if it'd work or not." He deadpanned.

"But it did!"

Pressing fingers to his nose, Ulrich sighed, "Odd, remind me to smack him when he gets me out of here." Odd nodded along, even though it was pretty sure that the little spectacle would be forgotten and put behind them.

Odd took the moment to outstretch its paws, "I guess I can say, welcome to Lyoko!"

Ulrich nodded, "Yeah, thanks for welcoming me..." He then gazed over himself again, smiling lightly as he tugged a katana out of a sheathe, "This is pretty cool!" Odd dismissed the whine threatening to leave its tongue. It didn't need to complain that it didn't have a cool sword like the human, instead it had gauntlets that could shoot six laser arrows. Nobody could say that about themselves, now could they?

As if reading his mind a bit, chocolate brown eyes looked at him, "Do you have a weapon?"

"Yeah," Odd summoned his gauntlets, smiling, "These shoot three arrows per gauntlet. Six arrows at once if I use both hands, pretty neat right?"

"Odd, do you mind taking Ulrich to Maya?" It would be going out of its way to the opposite direction but... in a way, those were orders. And orders topple over regular commands, as long as the blond wanted them to rule over. Heck, it'd rather ditch the mission than continue on for a while to reach one last tower.

The programmed cat-boy stretched out its back, "I don't mind. Come on Ulrich, we're heading south from here." It didn't go on all fours to speed up the process since it didn't want to leave its new friend behind. Odd lead the way, taking the time to enjoy another presence around it that was actually human. The Professor had left his mark on the cat-boy and it wanted something more back then. What it was, the blond could not conclude. It wanted to simply conclude that it was a friend... but could that really ring true? No quick conclusions, It chided itself, Just let it come together when it wants to.

"So, how long have you been here?" Ulrich asked.

Odd placed its paw underneath its chin again, "Well, I won't count the ten years of deactivation. Technically, I've only been around for about a year with the Professor."

"Professor?"

"Yeah, he was a nice guy. He created me... or at least I think he did." Pressing thin claws to its temple, the Daemon frowned, "Hmm. My memory must be glitched. I cannot recall some of my meetings with him. Must be a side effect of the shutdown."

The samurai fell in step with him, walking next to him, "Do you know what happened to him?"

"All I can remember is that he came here in white orbs," It frowned, "White orbs that played a wonderful piano tune. He asked me to watch over someone named Aelita and make that person happy. It's a secondary mission he assigned and I want to complete it but my main objective takes priorities."

Crossing his arms, Ulrich questioned, "What about Jeremie? Did he issue you any orders?"

"Well," Odd rubbed the back of its neck, flashing a cheeky grin, "I can take whatever he says as an order. Like taking you to Maya. I really dread finding the last tower since its so far away from where you wish to go."

A warm hand clapped on its shoulder, gently squeezing it, "We should finish up your priorities here before you get to Jeremie's. Come on, take me to that tower."

Odd huffed, "Fine." It didn't put up much of a fight against going there since it had company. If Ulrich wanted to go, then it wouldn't stop it. After all, the human was new to this place and chose Odd as a guide rather than listen to Jeremie give a direction to travel. It felt... nice, if the program had to chose a word for it.

Time had flown by after that interaction. Odd didn't count down the minutes it took to get there all because Ulrich asked it questions about the world and it, included. It didn't hold back any information it knew, for having another mind recall something it may forget is better than to lose it forever. In turn, Odd asked about how he met up with Jeremie and what it was like in the real world. One of those questions rested on how Ulrich entered the virtual world.

"Even with him falsely assuring me that he understood the procedure, it was simple, really," Ulrich admitted, "But uh... he talked me into going in. But first, he gave me time to think about it. By then, I ran into trouble in the name of Sissi, she's the principal's daughter that goes to my school. She flagged me down before I got here and well, she's out there with Jeremie right now."

"You two dating?"

"Heck no!" He shook his head, "I don't like her like that! But she likes me like that. It sucks. I keep telling her that I don't like her like that but she doesn't listen to me."

Odd shrugged, "Well, maybe she'll understand some day. You just have to hope."

"Hey, there's the tower!" Ulrich noted and pointed up ahead to where the beautiful blue aura colored the giant, white candle with brown roots. It wasn't much longer that they reached it.

"The outside coding is managing just fine. All in all, the projection is right." Odd placed its paws against the side of the candle, "Now to check inside..." It slid through the false wall, its feet greeting nothing but empty air. It shrieked, snapping his paws out to the platform that was right next to it. Its head began to scream as the bugged code practically flashed in its face, "Oh crap, bugged entrance! Looks like there is a glitch after all- ULRICH!" It shouted as the boy slid in after him, quickly grabbing its legs for safety.

"Is this what you call a bug in the system?!" Ulrich yelled back to him.

"Yeah, and you're far too heavy for me to heave the both of us up- ah!" And so, its claws finally gave out on it. They were sent spiraling into the blackness and since tower nine was a Way Tower, they were heading to a sector that was completely different than the one they were in before. The binary coding guided them, being the light in the darkness as the world continued to move along as if they weren't there.

Their exit wasn't a phenomenal one. Nor was it horrible. It was only them being spat out onto the cold, blue land of the Ice Sector. Its programming screamed for him to comb over the ten towers here, but that could be finished later, "Are you okay?" It asked Ulrich, seeing the samurai rub his head.

"Yeah, that was pretty scary."

Odd grinned lightly, "Well, that wasn't the right way to travel. At least, we were supposed to go down with a sense of peace and not a sense of panic. That's why it spat us out so quick. The towers want to carry a sense of harmony. They want to be in a world without danger. But uh, this is the Ice Sector. Ten towers here too, but I think we should travel back to the Forest Sector and take you to Maya like I told Jeremie I would."

"So all the towers would be blue for "harmony", right?"

"I guess that would be the right way to think of it." Odd confirmed.

Ulrich gestured up ahead, pointing out a tower that had a crimson aura surrounding it, "Then would that be another bug in the system?"

Its amber eyes scanned over the tower, "From here, I want to say that's a bug. But... in a way, its not. My scans do not protest at that bugged code like they did with the bugged entrance. They won't tell me what's wrong."

"I don't want to alarm you any more, but there are strange creatures heading towards us." Looking over its shoulder, it took note of three creature it hadn't seen before. They were in the shape of blocks, with little red legs underneath connected by cables.

Odd hummed, "Yeah, that's pretty weird too. I think we should go..." It then turned tail and ran as the same sounds from the cockroach creatures sounded began to echo around. Pew! Pew pew!

"Woah!" Ulrich followed along, running just a bit faster than the program who ran on two legs. The creatures skittered along past them, trapping them in some sort of triangle.

The program groaned lightly, resting on all fours. It summoned its gauntlets as Ulrich drew his katana. The monsters began to shoot at them and Ulrich used his sword to absorb the lasers and Odd summoned a shield to deflect one of the lasers. It was a brawl for their lives, as Odd stood up again and shot its laser arrows at one of the creatures. It spun around, the arrows smacking the sides of the spinning creature.

Ulrich ran off, jumping in the air. He landed on the block creature, trying to stab the monster on top of its head. It didn't work however, forcing the samurai to hop off the creature. He then moved his katana to absorb one last laser heading towards Odd's face, "So, how are we supposed to defeat these creatures?"

"My scans say a weak point is directly where the weird logo is." Odd murmured, pointing both arms at the nearest stationary monster. Their lasers continued to fly at them until one stabbed him directly in its side. It felt that alertness it held disappear as it watched Ulrich stare at it, something akin to horror on the boy's face as everything disappeared into darkness.

...95%...

...100%...

Reloading complete. Virtualization process activated.

The cold, icy feeling crept up and ate it as it landed on the frozen ground of the Ice Sector. It whipped its gaze around, recognizing that Ulrich wasn't around anymore. Did something happen to him? Was he okay?

It sighed, "Well, I hope he's okay." It couldn't worry about him too much or else it'd worry itself to death.

Click-click. Click-click-click. It tensed, hearing the clatter of the block creatures around it, "Oh come out you big dumb blocks!" It shouted, spinning on its heel. Its gauntlets were summoned as a familiar pink elf shot out of the tower and ran directly into it.

"Oh! Odd!" She gasped, rolling off of it. Odd quickly recovered, shooting down one of the two blocks around the tower. It then aimed its other paw at the last block, trying to ignore the sudden excitement that coursed through him as the creature exploded into bits of data, "You're back!" She stood up, her hand extended out and ready to help it up.

It grinned weakly, "Yup! Back and ready for action, Maya!" It then took in her appearance in the Ice Sector, a sigh escaping its lips, "Though, can you answer why you're here instead of the Ice Sector?"

She pointed to the red tower up ahead, "I need to enter that tower. Can you take me to it?"

Odd nodded, "Yeah, I can." It stood on its two legs, pointing directly ahead as its gauntlets dispersed, "Alright! It's this way, Princess!" They took off and since the ground was basically ice, they began to glide at some points.

"Hey! Maya, can you hear me? Maya!"

"Loud and clear, Jeremie! Odd has reappeared and we're heading to the red tower!"

"Why did you leave the tower in the first place without us? Are you crazy?!" Jeremie sounded upset and the blond silently felt for him. If it hadn't reloaded back into Lyoko, she would have been in major danger.

She panted, "I heard some strange pulsations! I wanted to see what they were! I ran into a bit of a situation but Odd came back in the nick of time and saved me!"

"Well, I'm sending you two back up just in case! For now, just wait for them please!"

Odd halted its run and soon reached out a paw to stop Maya from skidding off after they shot out of a tunnel. She smiled weakly at him and they soon found themselves waiting past the icy cavern with a running waterfall. The land was colored a beautiful light blue, with a darker blue barely illuminating the sky. Odd admired this sector because it was so simple but held its own secrets. The Desert Sector had more of a simplicity but the Ice Sector would always have a home in its heart since it was the first sector he was loaded into.

Then, there was the familiar clacking of slim legs hitting the ice, "Oh great," Odd groaned, summoning its gauntlets again as three block creatures surrounded them from all sides, "Looks like its going to be a rough one, Maya."

"Jeremie! We have a bit of a situation!" Maya shouted.

"Hyaah!" The shing of a katana being drawn echoed around, followed by one of the block creatures exploding into bits and pieces of white and red. Ulrich landed, dressed in his samurai outfit.

Odd beamed, "Hey! Ulrich! Nice to see you again!" The second block shot over at the duo and the samurai dashed over, using his sword to absorb the red light.

"No time for greetings, Odd! We got monsters to take care of!" Odd happily agreed, showing its acknowledgement by destroying a block monster with his arrows. Its amber eyes noticed a newcomer, a female dressed up as a geisha. She had raven hair with black eyes, her face was painted white with blush on her cheeks and lipstick dying her lips a ruby red. Her outfit consisted of a beautiful red and black kimono with floral patterns decorating them, with an yellow obi tied around her waist. She had on traditional Japanese sandals, with bandages along her legs and black shorts hidden underneath the top part of the kimono.

She frowned, "Hey, I don't have a weapon." Taking one more look over herself, her charcoal black eyes noticed something hidden between the bow of her obi and the cloth itself. She retrieved it, brandishing a wonderful fan with a light shade of purple and red pant on the inside, "A fan?"

Odd quickly scanned over it, jumping over the lasers of the third as Ulrich used his sword to stop the red lights from touching Maya, "It's programmed as a projectile! Throw it, geisha!"

The fan was thrown, spinning in the air as it gained a white glow. It sliced into the block and split it in half and like its comrades before it, it exploded in bits of data.

Ulrich sheathed his sword, smiling lightly at the girl, "Not bad."

She jumped into the air, catching the fan. As soon as she caught it, she folded it and placed it back in its resting place, "Yeah, I think I'll keep it."

"Nice work! Now bring Maya and Odd to the red tower so we can materialize them!"

"Materialize...?" Odd tilted its head, "You're trying to bring us to Earth?" They all took off running toward the red tower. It hadn't processed what Jeremie had stated to Ulrich earlier in the real world until now. Did Jeremie actually have a plan to bring them into the real world?

"Yeah! If Maya enters the tower, she may be able to find the code for materialization and then I can bring you two to Earth! Then the supercomputer can be shut down and all of this mess, over!"

The geisha let out a sigh of relief, "That sounds wonderful."

Odd beamed at the lady, "May I ask who you are?"

"It's Yumi, Yumi Ishiyama."

The Daemon smiled, "I'm the Overwriting Debugging Daemon... but everyone calls me Odd. So, I'm Odd."

Maya waved her hand at the geisha, "And I'm Maya, nice to meet you." She then pointed at Ulrich, "And can I inquire your name?"

"Uh, Ulrich. Ulrich Stern."

"Um, I hate to break the introductions but Ulrich and Yumi's little friend is coming over to greet me. Where are you guys!?"

"Tower's dead ahead, Jeremie!" Ulrich responded. The ice crunched underneath each step they took, but thankfully it did not falter or break from their weight.

Jeremie replied, "Hurry it up then! Things are about to get a bit jumpy over here! Oh! And watch it guys! There are some monsters heading your way, different than those that attacked you earlier!" As he mentioned that, two red creatures stepped out of hiding behind the thick ice blocks. They were large in size, as well as colored red from all aspects except its glassy orbs at its face. The way they walked was slightly slanted and it exposed a the same logo that was on the block and cockroach creatures before.

"Their weakness is on top of their shells," Odd automatically relayed, scrambling off to the side to one of the ice blocks. It needed a better height advantage to attack and with its claws it could make an advantage. Its friends split up to their own ways and hopefully were thinking of their own plans as a mean to destroy the crabs. It sprung onto the ice block, noticing that one of the creatures stopped its run and focused on him, "Of course. Come on crabby! Let's party!" The familiar gauntlets formed on its wrists as it began to shoot.

The crab, as big as it was it was graceful as it staggered away from the arrows. It rose a claw, trying to thwack it off the ice, "Not so fast!" It clambered up a bit more, finally causing damage to the big metal creature. As it did, it looked like the crab got tired of it as a red laser slammed into his chest and took away his awareness and replaced it with nothing but darkness.

...95%...

...100%...

Reloading complete. Virtualization process activated.

Once again, the Ice Sector greeted it with cold, empty arms. Odd landed on the ground with growing grace. It thanked the times before to prepare it for the sudden landing as it stood up and looked around. The ice blocks were familiar, but the crabs didn't linger anymore. It looked over to the tower and took in the appearance that it was blue this time and not crimson. "Looks like Maya got into the tower..." It murmured, plopping onto the ground.

Something tingled in the back of its head, reminding it of the communication that Jeremie established that one time. Immediately, it acknowledged the communication and placed its paw on air. The window appeared and showed him a small room, fit with a bed and decorated with posters and other gizmos. It practically sang of Jeremie's home, or at least his room for wherever he was.

It then took in the fact that Ulrich and Yumi were sitting on the bed, as Jeremie was sitting in a chair a tad bit off screen. It then looked to the side and noticed Maya's little square that held her face. It frowned, tilting its head. Wouldn't Maya be in the real world if she had gone in the red tower?

"Nice to see you back, Odd." Maya's voice toned in, a sweet one that alerted the humans of his reloading.

"So uh, how'd it go?" It asked, unable to think of something bigger to address.

"Well," Jeremie sighed, "My theory was proven wrong, the materialization program did not appear after Maya entered the red tower. And uh... if you didn't notice, today is now yesterday. I apparently initiated a program that allows the real world to turn back time. I call it, Return to the Past."

Odd allowed its senses to be enveloped by the supercomputer, then hummed, "Oh, it is yesterday. That's pretty neat," That could be why time never progressed when the Professor was in charge... did he create that program? "But do you not remember initiating it?"

"Yeah, I do not remember it. I don't understand why I can't remember it either."

Yumi hummed and Odd took note that she dressed in all black including a tank top, pants and combat boots, unlike her geisha outfit in Lyoko, "Maybe that's because you were the only one who didn't get virtualized onto Lyoko."

"Yes, that could be," Jeremie tapped his chin, "Well tomorrow I'm going to the factory first thing to scan myself and then-"

"No Jeremie," Maya halted his thought process, "We have to shut down the supercomputer and you know it. It's too dangerous."

"But, Maya-"

Maya shook her head, wagging her finger as she smiled, "No, Aelita. When I went into the tower, I remembered my name!"

"Aelita..." Odd tested it, "I like it. It suits you... and you're the person Professor told me to protect and make happy!"

"Make happy?" Yumi asked.

"Yeah Odd, you only mentioned the Professor," Jeremie muttered, "Who is he, exactly?"

"The Professor is well... the Professor," Odd weakly shrugged, "I can't really describe him much more because he was outside the supercomputer all the time. I think he created me, but I know for a fact he assigned me my duty to Lyoko as the Overwriting Debugging Daemon. The last time I saw him was the first time I was deactivated and it was by force all because of the creatures. They were attacking me and he was suddenly there outside a tower in little white orbs. He told me to continue along with the program that is O.D.D. and protect the one he loved from a monster he couldn't stop. He told me to see to it that she is happy in the end."

"So the Professor knew of my existence?"

Odd nodded, "He knew and adored you by the words he shared with me. So Aelita, as someone assigned to protect you I have to go against your wishes and state that we should not shut off the supercomputer." It was illogical on all means, but in the end Aelita wouldn't be happy and its coding was screaming at it to keep her happy.

"Yeah!" Jeremie wholeheartedly agreed with it, "I promised I'd bring you to the real world!" The blond looked over his chair, facing Ulrich and Yumi, "Give me one more night to work it out, okay? I'll find a way!"

The program saluted, "And of course, you have a program that worked on codes before on the case as well. I'll help you, Einstein!"

"Uh, Einstein?"

A smile made its way on its face, "Yeah. You're a prodigy, much like Albert Einstein was so I decided to nickname you Einstein, much like you all address me as Odd."

Ulrich and Yumi exchanged glanced on the bed, ignoring the little chat the two blond's were having before Ulrich smiled and replied, "Okay."

Jeremie beamed, "Thanks guys."

Both fighters stood up from the bed as Ulrich made the meeting, "We'll meet tomorrow morning in the supercomputer room to see how you're doing." With that, the small meeting was dismissed and thus began the nightly research of Lyoko.

"Hi!" Yumi's voice echoed over the communication tab and Odd crossed its arms as it peered into the screen that showed both humans settling around the blond sitting in the chair. The program was situated in a tower in the Desert Sector since it went over each sector to see if it could find a new piece of data that could explain to it what the creature in the world was, "Find anything?"

"Yes," Jeremie confirmed, "XANA."

Ulrich's settled frown grew a bit deeper, "XANA? What's that?"

"A super dangerous program! Like a virus that can control electricity and it activates towers on Lyoko to gain access to your world!"

"So the red tower, the electricity monster, the weird symbol, the monsters on Lyoko... all of that was XANA?"

"Yes it was. Only Aelita can counter it by deactivating the tower that it uses for attacks in the real world."

Ulrich sighed, "Well, that's good. But what about materializing both Aelita and Odd?"

Jeremie looked down, "I can do it, but I need some time. It's dangerous, XANA can attack at any moment."

"Be reasonable Jeremie," Aelita responded from her own part of the screen, "We better just shut this thing down."

Odd decided to be the voice of reason for this one, "But we can still press forward and find a way to get you out. We know a way to counteract XANA and that's you, Aelita. So long as we get you to the activated tower, XANA won't stand a chance against us... well, if you two won't mind helping us." It addressed to both Yumi and Ulrich, wondering what they would choose in the situation. Would they help Jeremie, or would they encourage him to shut it down. At this moment, the decision rested on both of them.

Ulrich grinned, "So we know how to neutralize XANA, like Odd said. We can counteract its attacks that way and have Jeremie work on a way to get the both of you out of the supercomputer."

He shared a glance with Yumi and the geisha's straight face melted away into a smile, "It's risky, but I think we should."

"You really think you can do it?" Aelita asked.

Jeremie chuckled, "Odd wouldn't call me Einstein for nothing."

Odd waved, "Plus, with my help we can figure out what works and what doesn't! Don't worry Aelita, soon enough you'll be out of the supercomputer and this mess will all be over with!"

Ulrich gave it some sort of look, one that it didn't understand, "And don't forget yourself, idiot. You're getting out of there too."

"Aelita is a bigger priority than me at the moment," Odd replied. It tried to ignore the warm feeling that overcame it and soon enough, it was gone, "So lets focus on that. Then we can get me out, okay?"

"Don't worry. In a few weeks, Aelita should be out of there and Odd will follow suit. Now let's not forget our pact, huh?" Jeremie looked over to Yumi and Ulrich with a strange glint in his eye.

Yumi snorted, "Relax, we know how to keep a secret." The trio began to laugh and Odd, clueless to the situation at hand, looked over at Aelita's screen. The pink elf shrugged, a small smile on her lips and the Daemon chuckled lightly. It was going to enjoy these new people... and maybe, just maybe, it could figure out what it was missing all that time from back then.