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Odd and Sam were busy eating a late lunch when Odd's phone rang. Odd looked down wondering if Xana had attacked again so soon, it hadn't even been an hour since the return to the past had dropped Odd back at lunch with Sam. Odd picked up the phone and answered it.
"Hello?"
"Hey Odd, it's Ulrich we need to talk."
Odd was silent for a moment, "Ok what about?"
"Can we meet in person, this is something I'd rather discuss in person."
Odd agreed to meet in twenty minutes at the park. He turned his attention back to Sam who was staring off into space.
"Hey earth to Sam, hello." Sam snapped out of her daze smiling.
"Sorry about that," she laughed.
"So what were you thinking so hard about?"
Sam answered without thinking, "Oh I was thinking about how close of a call it was for you earlier…when…." Sam realized she'd said way too much.
Odd looked at her in shock. "Sam tell me the truth, what are you talking about?" Odd demanded.
"Oh nothing Odd forget about it," Sam pleaded.
"Not happening Sam." Odd said in the serious tone he rarely used.
Sam gave a sad smile to her friend, "I know Odd, I know about you and your friends and about Lyoko."
Odd's face paled, "How do you know, I mean we didn't let it slip did we?"
Sam started to panic, "Odd I can't tell you, it's for your own good that you don't know how I know. Just forget about it. You didn't let it slip okay just be happy with that"
"Sam what's …". Odd was going to finish his question, but Sam was growing more frantic by the minute and she got up to leave.
"Don't go Sam, I'm sure the others don't mind."
Sam pushed her chair in and grabbed a pen and wrote on the napkin and left. Odd rose to chase her, but one look from her told him not to follow. He sat back down and reached for the napkin. He opened it, and gasped.
"Can't talk
we're being watched.
I'll call you later."
Odd grabbed his phone and dialed Jeremy.
"Jeremy, drop whatever you're doing and meet me and Ulrich at the park in five minutes, call Yumi and Aelita too."
Jeremy was shocked at the stress in Odd's voice, "Odd what's wrong."
"Jeremy I can't say right now, just meet me there."
When Odd reached the park the others were already there. Ulrich surprised to see the others had been filled in by Jeremy on Odd's disturbing call.
Yumi was the first to speak when Odd came up, "So why are we skipping last period Odd?"
Odd looked at his friends, all of whom were staring intently at him. "Guys Sam knows about Lyoko."
"How?" they all asked at once.
"I'm not sure, we were talking and Ulrich called me, when I got off the phone she was staring off into space. I asked her what she was thinking about and she said about how close of a call we had earlier."
"So she has a way to view what goes on in Lyoko," Jeremy observed.
"Yeah and she tried to cover it up. When I asked her what she was talking about she told me to let it go. I wouldn't and she confessed she knew about Lyoko."
"So what, she was scared we'd be mad at her for not telling us?" Aelita asked.
"No, she grew real panicky, like Kiwi when he's been locked in the drawer to long, she started looking around like she was trapped."
"Wow, that's not a good sign." Ulrich admitted.
"Yeah and it gets worse," Odd said pulling out the note, "She gave this too me and left.
The others read the note and gasped.
"Yeah I think Sam's in trouble." Odd muttered as he looked at each of his friends.
Jeremy took control of the situation. "Aelita, Yumi and I will head to the factory to scan Lyoko, Odd, you and Ulrich see if you can find Sam."
They all agreed and headed out.
Ulrich looked over at Odd as the others left for the factory "Hey Odd."
"Yeah Ulrich?"
"I'm sorry about the other day." Ulrich looked at the ground and then met his blonde friend eye to eye.
" I didn't mean to hurt you, I didn't realize I'd hurt you until Yumi snapped at me. I'm sorry man, I know you don't need our help, I just want you to know we have your back that's all."
Odd stared at Ulrich for a moment and then gave one of his goofy grins, "It's cool Ulrich, I'm not mad anymore, friends?"
"Yeah friends again." Ulrich smiled.
The two shook on it, happy to be friends once again and headed off towards town to find Sam.
A dark shadow hovered above Sam in a darkened alley. It formed itself into a cloaked human with a black formless face.
"You failed me Sam, you were supposed to keep tabs on them not tell them that you know about Lyoko." The creature hissed.
"I'm sorry, I'll make it up to you I swear." Sam cried as she fell into the corner covering her head.
Two fiery slits appeared where eyes should've been if the creature were truly human.
"You better, I won't tolerate failure again."
"Yes, Xana." Sam squeaked out.
And with that the creature became the dark shadow again and disappeared. Sam lay in the alley surrounded by filth crying all alone.
"Jeremy look at that," Aelita said pointing towards the screen.
The computer had detected an activated tower.
"Alright, Yumi go to the scanner and….wait…it deactivated itself, that's weird."
Jeremy stared at the screen for a while confused about what to do. The three shrugged it off as Xana playing mind games.