A/N: Um, yeah, remember in the summary when I said there was only a tiny bit of Aelita/Jeremy action? Yeah. I wasn't kidding. Hah.
p.o.v. switching from 1st person to 3rd...
"Yes Jeremie, I am certain I've been feeling pulsations around here. This makes me uncomfortable. It would be a great help if you could send someone to check it out with me." Aelita's smooth feminine voice made Jeremie blush.
"Ok, Aelita," Jeremie looked at us with the "who-wants-to-go-to-Lyoko" face.
"I'll go!" Odd volunteered happily.
"Alright, Odd," Jeremie said.
Odd, who had been sitting on the floor, jumped up, bounced into the scanner, and waited anxiously for the virtualization process to begin.
"Is it me or is Odd more hyper today than usual?" Yumi whispered to Ulrich.
"Someone probably gave him sugar. They should know better than to do that... Odd shouldn't have sugar, it makes him excited."
They both laughed to themselves.
"Ready?" asked Jeremie.
"Of course!" Odd replied energetically.
Jeremie started the scanner. "Scanner, Odd!" he announced. The scanner blasted every angle of Odd's body with light. When the computer got all of the data it needed from the scan, it started the virualization process.
Odd was just about to enter Lyoko when an error message appeared on Jeremie's computer screen. "Oh no..." Jeremie said. "Something's wrong!"
Ulrich and Yumi watched everything worriedly from a corner.
Meanwhile, Odd had entered Lyoko. Usually when you become virtualized, it's like having a jolt of energy shot through your body that keeps you going. Odd felt just the opposite, like all of his energy was being drained somehow.
"Jeremie..." Odd's voice came in through the computer. "I..."
"Odd! Are you ok? Something went wrong during virtualization!" Jeremie shouted.
"I...I feel weak... and....my super powers...." Odd was staggering back and forth, holding his head. His eyelids fluttered. "My super powers...I can't...use them....uhhh..."
"Oh no..." Jeremie said again. "Ok, I'm going to de-virtualiz-"
"Jeremie! Look, monsters!" Yumi exclaimed, concerned. Pointing to the warning on the computer screen, she was right, two cube monsters were headed in the direction of Odd and Aelita.
Before anyone could do anything, the cubes had appeared in their path, surrounding them. Odd fell to the ground. Aelita ran to him. Looking around anxiously, she tried franticly to get Odd to wake up. "Odd, please, get up! Oh please get up Odd! Please!" she shook him. He curled his body into a fetal position, obviously in some kind of pain.
A cube fired a shot. Aelita screamed as it hit Odd, and he was de-virtualized.
In the real world, Odd's body materialized inside the scanner, and he fell over. Was he even alive?