Chapter 4 is up. Enjoy.
Odd was walking around the forest trying to ignore everything around him.
'Come on son, you can't ignore me forever' Franz told him.
Odd stopped in his tracks and sighted 'I know, I know. I'm just not in the mood to talk to anyone'.
'Truth about Jason is bothering you?' Franz asked.
Boy nodded 'I can't belive he lied to me after everything we have been through. He could at least tell me about it earlier'.
'And how would you react? Do the same thing you are doing now? You know it's not that easy'.
'I'm not sure what to think anymore' Odd admitted honestly.
'Let me ask you something. You knew about him but when he got inside the room you did nothing, not even panicked. Why wouldn't you?'
'I don't know. I guess that if he wanted to hurt me or the others he would have done it million times already' he answered.
'Why did you leave than?' Franz asked.
'I told you. I wasn't in mood to listen to him after he lied to me'.
'Okay, seems fair'.
Odd kept walking while thinking about everything that happened for the past 3 months.
Jason saved him and his family without having second thought, he saved his life more than once and he was there with him at the hospital as much as he could. And all of that was in vain because of his lie. He was XANA all along. That can't be forgotten so easily.
Suddenly it got cold, really cold.
'Ugh, is it me or it suddenly got cold out if nowhere' Odd asked.
"It's not you Odd. It really is getting cold" deep voice said behind him as black mist appeared around him.
Odd turned around only to see XANA in his original form. 7 feet tall black as night creature.
"Well hello there Odd" XANA told him "Long time no see. Am I right?".
Odd shook his head in fear tried to run away but he wasn't able to do so.
XANA launched one of his tentacles and grabbed Odd by his ankle and turned him hanging upside down.
Odd tried to break free but there was no use in doing so. XANA created black smoke in his hand and shot it at Odd's face knocking him unconscious.
"Good boy. I have great plans for you" XANA said as he dragged him towards the factory.
Few minutes later they were at the factory.
XANA brought Odd into scanner room and tossed him in one of them. Than he teleported to the lab and launched virtualization process.
"Almost done" XANA said and vanished in cloud of black smoke.
In the meantime others were rushing to look out for Odd.
"He couldn't have gotten far away could he?" Yumi asked while running.
"It doesn't matter how far he got" Jason told her "XANA could find him wherever he is in matter of seconds".
"Where should we look than?" Ulrich asked worried.
"I'm not sure but if I had to guess-" Jason was unable to finish his sentence before Aelita got their attention.
"Guys look" she pointed her finger at the object on the ground.
"Is that?" Ulrich asked while Jason walked towards it and picked it up.
"Odd's cell phone" Jason said and looked at the others "He already got him".
Others were stunned by this.
"Where did he take him?" Ulrich asked and grabbed him by the collar "Where?!".
Jason looked him in the eyes "If I know him as good as I think I do I would say to factory".
"But that doesn't make any sense" Aelita said as she walked towards the two "Why would he go after Odd? He always goes after me because of my father. Why Odd?".
Jason sighted "Let's just say that there is something inside him that XANA so eagerly wants to destroy".
He than turned towards Ulrich "You can let me go now".
"And why would I do it?" Ulrich asked him sternly.
Jason looked at him sternly and mark of XANA appeared in his eyes "Listen to me because I won't repeat myself. I came here to help you, not to hurt you. Even if I did I would have done it by now. Hell, I wouldn't warn you about XANA going after Odd. If that's not enough of a reason than I don't know what is".
"Screw you" Ulrich said and proceeded to punch him in the face but Yumi stopped him.
"Ul that's enough. I think we can trust him".
"What?! Are you serious?" Ulrich asked her "Why would we trust him after everything he did?".
Yumi looked at Jason "I don't know for sure, but I feel like we can"..
Ulrich looked at Jason than back at Yumi than back at Jason and released his collar.
"Fine" he said with a groan "But if this comes back at us I'm coming after you first".
Jason nodded "Fair".
"Guys" Jeremy got their attention "We need to get to factory as fast as possible".
Others nodded and ran towards factory.
On Lyoko Odd was just waking up.
"Ugh" he said with a groan "What happened?".
He looked around himself and saw that he was on Lyoko and than memories came flooding in.
Forest, XANA, he tried to ran away, XANA caught him.
"He must have brought me here" Odd said and got up on his feet.
"You guessed it" XANA said as he walked towards him.
Odd turned around pulling out his saber and creating energy field ready to fight.
But to his surprise XANA wasn't alone. There was William and some monsters. Tarantulas, blocks and kankrelats. And Scyphozoa.
"What is that jellyfish doing here?" Odd thought to himself.
XANA looked at him "I think you know exactly what is it doing here".
Odd thought for a second and realization hit him straight in the face "N-No".
He saw William grinning.
XANA laughed "Yeah, that's right. Prepare to become part of my club. But before doing so we need to take care of your friend in there".
Odd shook his head "No, I won't allow you to".
"There is nothing you can do to stop it" William told him and laughed.
Monsters aimed at Odd ready to shoot.
"Shoot if he tries to run, but try not to devirtualize him" he told them and turned towards Scyphozoa "Do your job".
It made some kind of scretching noise and floated towards Odd.
Odd tried to back away but when he looked behind he saw that he was near the edge of the sector. He was trapped.
William was right, there was nothing he could to stop them.
He tightened grip on his saber and looked at the Scyphozoa. If he is going down he isn't going to it without a fight.
And this is the end of this chapter guys, I hope you enjoyed it. Until next time, peace out.