Author's Note:
Wow. The second chapter of the reboot is up. I honestly would have thought that I wouldn't have finished it.
On with the Story!
Odd knows that his friends need him for so much more than friends. He is like the getaway to the factory and the last one on Lyoko.
To top it off, he actually has almost all A's in classes and started to practice programming. It turns out that if he's the only one besides Jeremie in the factory, he might as well start trying to take the driver's seat for the quantum computer. Even so, Jeremie's crash course on programming people into Lyoko wasn't in detail. Learning himself actually made more of an impact.
He started to learn it before he noticed his pals acting so weird around him. So far, he managed to make a program to make the Overboard, the Overbike, and the Overweight to be faster than before in which got him a hug and more punches in the arm from his gang.
Although he doesn't want to be like Jeremie with his all-nighters, Odd can see why it can get a little addicting in a way to program. The codes feel like a game of Tetris; the 0's, 1's, and various commands cover the entire screen on black.
Today was a regular Friday, until he had noticed his friends weren't around the school campus or in the dorms. Even the teachers suspected that they ditched school for some event.
Well, the teachers aren't wrong to suspect that the people who always take an hour to go to the bathroom are skipping.
He tried calling them after classes, and going to the factory at night, but to no evidence that they were gone. He even started going through Jeremie's and Aelita's computer for anything related to their disappearance, but nothing of interest showed at all. Odd then went back to his dorm, but couldn't help to notice that without Ulrich, he couldn't even make a comfortable position on his bed. But...
He soon fell asleep, dreaming and visualizing in where his friends could've gone.
They wouldn't just ditch him, would they?
The Next Day...
He woke up around 4 A.M. Odd turned on the flashlight on his phone covering some of the light with his hand so that it didn't give off such a bright glow. He opened the door to Jeremie's dorm.
Nothing. The computer wasn't even on.
Odd quickly closed the door behind him, walking towards the desktop. Turning it on, he noticed that there was nothing of importance.
'That'd be too easy, they wouldn't be at the school...', Odd thought, leaving the school and into the forest.
He went looking in the abandoned, broken down house, in the depths of the deep green and gray forest. It still gave him the creeps when it came to this place. After all this was the place where XANA decided to use the force to move objects at their heads. Odd chuckled at how Ulrich and Yumi were trapped in a room because of it.
"You know, they're in a tight room, with no water? It's getting hotter by the second?" He could remember saying, stifling a laugh. Odd continued to search the house, scanning the living room before going upstairs.
It had felt a little cooler upstairs, which gave the blonde chills down his spine. He could remember Aelita reminiscing the memories she had here as he looked around the small rooms.
"Nope." Odd subconsciously said to himself when he saw a doll move. He quickly went back downstairs.
Odd slowly opened the heavy metal door which trapped the famous love birds together, making sure that this time that there was a brick so that the door wouldn't close on him. He observed the room about three times before looking down at a piece of paper. There was something typed on it, but he couldn't read it fast enough.
Odd gasped and muttered, "XANA" but the brick keeping the door open was moving around.
Before he knew it, he escaped and the door was shut tight. Odd could see his blond hairs that were ripped from his body between him and the room.
Odd sat down on the floor, trying to map this scheme. If XANA knew he would be here, then it would also know that Odd could figure where they were hiding, too. He just had to think before walking outside to the secret passage to the sewers.
"The factory." He muttered to himself running down the stairs.
He ran to the production line however once more, trying to find a clue just like the note he had found. Down through the sewer vent, taking the skateboard down the sewers and singing like Tarzan on one of the three lines of rope, and he arrived at the lift. He before long typed in the code and escalated down the infrastructure to the super calculator. Odd had searched this portion some time recently but attempted to see in case there was anything, like the note, within the room. There wasn't anything tragically.
He then went back to the elevator, and stepped out seeing the scanners before him. He did the same process, looking for a note with that certain writing. Odd searched inside the tube-like holes and under the wires, until he found this note instead inside the scanner that he usually uses.
"You only need four wheels to control a car. Not five." Odd fought back the tear that tried its hardest to run out of his eye.
He went to the Super Computer, seeing that it was left on. Opening up the map of Lyoko, he found three- no, there's four- four little arrows.
Others' Point of View
The desert sector had some new guests. XANA had put in a virus to cancel the scanners so they won't come back if they are dematerialized. Under some type a cavern, lies a group protecting each other, making precautions about the monsters. Jeremie sadly doesn't have any type of weapon, so he decides to have one of Ulrich's twin blades.
Jeremie shouldn't have taken it though. He knows too well that he can be clumsy. But he also felt stupid to think that he would never be in Lyoko. Anything can happen when a killer virus wants you dead.
"Will Odd notice that we're here?", says Yumi, using her telekinesis to block up the entrance to the cavern leaving them stuck there.
Just after her statement, they all heard a crackling, thinking that the monsters started breaking in the little cavern. Instead they heard a voice crack.
In fact, it was Odd, giving his all on looking at the little arrows symbolizing his friends.
They all shouted commands to Odd which in return gave the teen gibberish on his end, the barrier Yumi made starting to give out.
"Don't worry, I have already had a setup program for this type of situation. Just hold on a little bit longer!", said a shrill and relived Odd.
Normal Point of View
Odd made his way, typing almost as furiously as Jeremie, having almost everything fixed in the scanners. Tons and tons of bugs showed up, but luckily that program of his fixed them up in a second. Odd instinctively wiped off the sweat that stuck onto to his forehead.
Those arrows are moving, meaning he has to hurry up with this stupid bug of XANA's. He first makes a new profile for Jeremie so that he can have a weapon.
He has now a blue and white vest loaded with ammo and on the back has dual pistols, and can use his glasses as a type of new and up-to-date computer, which can do the same programs as the supercomputer can. He doesn't have any type of power, sadly, Odd was going way too fast for it to work.
'Hopefully Jeremie is good at shooting games.' Thought Odd.
Others Point of View
"Thanks!", said a now excited Jeremie, now holding a pistol; shakily. "But how do I use this...?"
As soon as he replied to Odd, the hornets and blocks started to pour into the little cavern making the others move while Ulrich and Yumi try their best to protect Aelita. Almost all of the monsters open fired, leaving Ulrich with just 10 life points.
They all heard another crackling of the microphone.
"Guys! The bug is all gone!", Odd said into the earpiece. Meanwhile, Ulrich just got killed by a block, and now it was Yumi's turn to get hurt, leaving the cave with 20 life points.
Jeremie and Aelita are almost at the tower, when those remaining monsters rushed back to the two. Jeremie open fired to the blocks, getting three or four of them to explode, and got hit, trying to run and shoot at the same time. Jeremie then tripped, shouting something incoherent and fending off the rest of the monsters.
Aelita, on the other hand, made a break for it with her wings.
Her plasma hit a hornet, then, finally, jumped into the tower, and beginning the process.
"Phew! Now you can kill me!", Jeremie shouted at the blocks, which took no chance in killing him.
Normal Point of View
Odd took off to the elevator, escalating down, to meet up with all of the others, still feeling a bit sick from the trip. Instantly, he felt so much weight coming down on him, caused by his buddies, basically tackling him to the metal floor. More and more shout came out of the room, with more pants.
"How did you do that, Odd?"
"I wish I were that good at computers!"
"Thanks guys, it's nothing, I practiced programming a long time ago", replied a surprised Odd. "I mean, it's over, right? We should just celebrate while we can. Who knows what'll happen next?"
The group nodded, all of which headed to the elevator, jogging out of the factory, and walking up the stairs silently to avoid Jim's sleep.
Most of them passed out in Odd and Ulrich's dorm, except for Odd ironically. He should've fell asleep first, considering the lack of sleep he had gotten.
'They would never leave me. They're my best friends.' Odd's final thought was, before passing out with the others.
(FIN)
So that's it. I literally look at the last time I wrote this up and cringe. But hey, that shows I've improved on my writing, right? That makes me feel like I'm a story-telling god. :)
But hey, I think I'm actually getting this on a weekend so that's something, right? Any who, hopefully you enjoy this, more to come I hope.
Until then,
Peace, my peoples~