~Back in the Factory~
"This is a disaster!" Jeremie hollered, throwing a CD case at a wall. "How could I let this happen?"
"None of us could have known," Aelita said, trying to reason with him. She picked up the CD case and set it down on the ground next to her. "But we'll get him back… We have all of his original coding, all we need to do is get him into a way tower so we can disinfect him… bring his true memories back, and bring him home."
Aelita tried not to show it but she was completely shaken. Out of all of the Warriors, Odd was her closest friend. She'd always felt safe around him, and Xana stole that from him. "That bastard…" Aelita mumbled to herself.
Ulrich, who was sitting nearest to her, heard the soft utterance and scooted closer to her, putting an arm around her. He knew how close she was to Odd, he knew how she felt. He felt her shutter but then relax slightly, she reached around and hugged back.
"I can tell you right now, Xana isn't going to let Odd go easily. Odd's a pretty damn good fighter as it is. With extra Xana powers he's bound to be unstoppable," Yumi said pessimistically. "We need to go back to school though. Obviously there is nothing we can do now, we're all exhausted and heartbroken…" she said holding back tears. "We can't get Odd back without some rest. Tomorrow's Sunday so we'll be able to focus on fixing this situation."
Everyone nodded reluctantly and Jeremie did a few last things on the super computer and followed the others out. He knew he wouldn't sleep. He'd spend his night working on the program he would use to bring the Giant Purple Cat home.
