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Amaherst: Ok, ok, I'll stop torturing you now. This chapter and the next are basically about 'five years ago.'
Chapter Three:
Odd stood alone in the cemetery.
He stared at the grouping of tombstones. The final result of the war.
He pulled his coat around him.
A car pulled up behind him, but he didn't turn around. He already knew who it was.
"You wanted me to meet you here?" Elisabeth asked.
He nodded.
She followed his gaze to the tombstones.
"There was nothing you could have done."
"Yes there was."
And he started to tell her about Lyoko.
Later. . .
"I got back together with Samantha during our Junior Year, you know that. . .And she joined us soon after. We were winning, basically. . ."
Flashback
Odd slammed around a corner as fast as he could and collided with Samantha.
"Sorry." He said.
She nodded. "I was coming to visit you anyway." She said, picking up her papers. "I thought of something, but I need to go to Sector 5 to check it out."
"Right." He said, taking her hand a helping her up. "Lets go ask Jeremy if he can transfer us."
She nodded and followed him.
Later on Lyoko, in Carthage. . .
Aelita, Odd, Samantha, and Ulrich had gone to Carthage. Yumi had remained behind in cases something happened on Earth.
"There." Ulrich said, pointing.
The others nodded, and soon they had opened the corridor to the interface.
"Keep an eye out for the Mantas." Jeremy warned.
"Well duh." Samantha said, watching over Aelita's shoulder. At times she pointed to a screen and Aelita would expand it.
"Hurry up, girls." Ulrich said tersely a few minutes later. "They're hatching."
"It's got to be here." Samantha muttered.
"What does?" Odd asked.
"I got it!" Aelita exclaimed. "Jeremy, I'm sending it to you now. Open a passage so we can get out."
"Done. The northeasters passage is open."
"Vehicles?"
"On the way.
A second later, three vehicles appeared.
End Flashback
"What did she find?" Elisabeth asked.
"What she'd expected." He said, sighing. "A tower in Sector 5. The one that contained the Xana virus."
"Which means?"
"If we deactivated it, Xana would cease to exist. So we went back the next day. That was when. . .when. . ."
"I'm sorry." She said. "You don't have to continue."
"Yes I do." He whispered, sitting down.
She sat beside him.