Hey everyone this is the last chapter for this story. I plan on writing another one in a week or so. I hope you enjoy and please review to let me know what you thought of the whole thing.
Ulrich and Jeremy ran to the park to enter the sewer to the factory. Jeremy was on the phone waking up Aelita and Urich was talking to Yumi.
"Yeah, I think Odd is in Lyoko. No, Yumi I'm not positive but I had a dream and I…I don't know it just feels like where he is."
Yumi slipped out her window and headed to the factory. She ran into Aelita at the sewer hatch and the two girls descended in pursuit of their friends.
Odd was still crouched behind some rocks when he spotted one of Xana's tanks rolling his way. Odd crouched even lower hoping he wouldn't be spotted. The tank rolled by and Odd breathed a sigh of relief. Odd turned around just in time to see the first hornet swooping down at him. Diving out of the way of the barrage of lasers, Odd jumped from rock to rock in a mad dash to find new cover.
Jeremy and Ulrich arrived at the factory. Ulrich went to the scanners while Jeremy headed into the control room. Ulrich went to step into the scanner but they were all dark.
"Hey Jeremy what's up with the scanners?"
"Give me a minute will you I'm trying to figure out what's going on. Oh Crap!"
"Jeremy what's wrong?"
"It appears Xana put a virus in the computer that shutdown the scanners. If Odd is in there and he loses all his life points then he won't be able to return and he'll die."
"Is Odd there? Hurry and get the scanner working so I can get to him."
"I'm looking, wait….Yes I see Odd on the scanner and he's under attack, I'm restarting the scanners, it will take a minute."
Odd was busy dodging to and fro that when he heard Jeremy's voice he thought he was hallucinating.
"Genius is that you?"
"Yeah Odd, I'm trying to restart the scanners, you are low on life points though so don't try anything stupid."
"You know me well Jeremy, why is it that when I get hit it feels real."
"That's cause until the scanners come online it is real."
"Damn!"
Odd unleashed his last four arrows at two hornets and dove behind another rock as a crab fired at him.
"Jeremy I could really use…"
"I'm way ahead of you, here you go Odd, twenty more arrows."
"Thanks bud."
Odd smiled as he started firing at the approaching monsters. Ulrich stood impatiently waiting for the scanners to reboot. Aelita and Yumi sprinted for the freight elevator.
Odd jumping from rock to rock didn't notice the larger circle of monsters slowly closing in all around him. The laser fire grew in intensity. Odd tried to dodge it all but wasn't fast enough. Two lasers struck him in the chest.
"Odd you are down to ten life points, you can't get hit again." Jeremy looked at the screen, the scanners were almost ready.
"I know that Jeremy, there's too many of them, I can't dodge them all." Odd grew frantic and started firing randomly in all directions as he ran.
Yumi and Aelita arrived and Yumi headed to the scanners. Aelita stayed with Jeremy to help him reboot the scanners. A light flashed on the screen.
"Ulrich, Yumi, get in the scanners, I can't virtualize you yet, but I can at least scan you into the computer. That may just give us the time we need for you to get to Odd."
The two friends nodded to each other and stepped into the scanners. The doors closed and the scanning process was begun.
Odd kept running firing at random. In a panicked voice he cried out, "Genius I've run out of options here. Get me out NOW!"
A hornet streaked across the sky towards Odd.
Jeremy noticed it too late. "Odd watch out!"
The hornet fired at Odd the laser streaked towards the blonde boy and caught him in the back and lifted him off his feet. He fell to the ground gasping for air. Everything started to fade around him.
"Jeremy the scanners are online." Aelita cried.
Jeremy virtualized Yumi and Ulrich immediately.
Ulrich virtualized next to his collapsed friend. He ran over to Odd and Yumi followed close behind destroying monsters as she ran. Ulrich reached Odd and picked knelt down beside him. Odd looked into his friend's eyes.
"I'm glad you came for me Ulrich, but I'm afraid you're too late."
"No Odd, stay with me you got to stay with me, I can't lose you I…" Ulrich broke down and cradled Odd's head in his lap. Yumi came running up and started blocking lasers as Ulrich held on to his friend. Odd suddenly dematerialized in front of them. Ulrich let out a scream of anguish and drew his sword. He charged at the hornet still floating in the air and stabbed his sword down on the eye like symbol. The hornet disintegrated.
"Guys I need your help here now I'm devirtualizing you now."
Yumi and Ulrich felt themselves being disassembled and then appeared in the scanners once again. They both stepped out to find Aelita in the third scanner holding onto someone. As the two got closer they saw that Aelita was holding on to Odd.
"He's not doing well, we need to get him to a hospital fast."
Yumi and Ulrich stepped in a grabbed Odd and carried him to the elevator. Jeremy met them and together they all carried Odd to the outside of the factory. Jeremy called the emergency number and an ambulance arrived in minutes and whisked Odd away.
The police showed up and began questioning the young friends.
"How did this happen to your friend?" The cop stood there looking intently for an answer.
"Sir, Odd is an adventurous kid and when we didn't hang out with him this weekend he decided to come try some jumps with his bike. I guess he fell and we found him today when we went looking for him." Jeremy smiled weakly hoping the story would hold.
The officer looked unsure until Ulrich pointed out a busted bicycle that was lying on the ground a few yards away. The cop nodded and let them rush to the hospital.
"Where did that bike come from?" Yumi asked.
"It's mine, I crashed doing tricks a week ago and left it here." Ulrich said.
Jeremy nodded and explained that Ulrich had mentioned it on the way over.
The four friends arrived at the hospital and were told that Odd was not allowed any visitors at that time. He was in bad shape and the doctors were doing all they could. Hours passed as the four hoped for the best. A doctor finally poked his head out of the room and asked them to come in. Ulrich entered first followed by Yumi and Jeremy and Aelita.
Odd lay unconscious on a bed with numerous IV's hooked up to him. Aelita gasped at the sight and Jeremy took her outside. The doctor left and Ulrich moved around to the other side of the bed.
"Odd, I'm sorry we didn't get there sooner. I should have known something was wrong when you didn't come back."
Ulrich couldn't hold it back anymore and tears started to flow from his eyes. Yumi moved around to put her arm around him. A small laugh came from the bed.
"Oh suck it up man, I'm not dead," Odd muttered.
Ulrich and Yumi both smiled and Odd fell back to sleep.
Later Odd awoke and sat up. In the corner of the room sat Aelita. The friends had decided to always keep someone with Odd. It happened to be Aelita's turn when Odd woke back up.
"Hi Odd how are you feeling."
"I'm doing ok, I'm just scared."
Aelita frowned, "what are you scared of?"
Odd was quiet for a while and then finally spoke up, "I'm scared of being all alone. When I was trapped in Lyoko the only thing that kept me going was knowing that you guys were coming for me. I've never been so scared though. I was all alone trying to fight for my very survival."
Odd grew quiet for a moment. "Aelita, how did you last so long?"
Aelita grew quiet and then smiled, "I always assumed someone would find me and rescue me. You and your friends saved me just like we saved you today."
Odd nodded and laid his head back down. "Thanks Aelita, for not giving up on me. I'm glad you and the others came. I…. I really was afraid I'd never see you again."
Ulrich, Yumi and Jeremy walked in and overheard Odd talking to Aelita. They walked up to Odd and each one told them that they would always be there for each other. None of them would ever worry about being alone.
"I'm glad to have you as friends," said Odd, "without you whose leftovers would I eat."
The others laughed and all agreed that Odd was back to his normal self.
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