Chapter 5 is up guys. Enjoy.
Warriors were nearly at the factory.
"Come on guys, we are nearly there" Aelita told them.
Jason nodded "Yeah, we need to hurry. His odds are getting worse".
"I still don't understand how you know all of that" Ulrich said.
"I will explain it once we get Odd back" Jason answered and kept running.
They finally arrived at the bridge and got down the ropes. They rushed towards the elevator and entered the lab.
"Okay guys, go towards the scanners" Jeremy told them as he sat down in his chair "But let's how is Odd doing first".
Jason and others walked towards the screen.
"Oh my god" Aelita whispered as she saw what was going on Lyoko. Odd was trapped and monsters were all around him "Is that- Is that Scyphozoa?".
Jeremy looked at the screen again "It really is. But what does it want from Odd?".
"Probably to turn him against us" Yumi said.
Jason remained silent the whole time.
Ulrich turned towards him "Alright start explaining. Now".
"As I said before there is something inside of him that XANA wants to destroy and now he is going to use Scyphozoa to get it" he answered.
"Even if XANA gets what he wants Odd will stay the same, right?" Ulrich asked.
Jason shook his head "It's not that simple".
Aelita walked towards him "There is something you aren't telling us. Am I right?".
Jason sighted and nodded "That thing became part of Odd's code that shouldn't be touched. If that happens-" he couldn't finish his sentence.
"That's not possible" Jeremy said from his seat "So this means that if Scyphozoa gets him and take that code Odd is going to-".
"Die" Jason said and nodded "Same thing that happened to Aelita when he took her keys of Lyoko. But this time Franz won't be able to bring him back".
"But why not?" Ulrich asked "If he could save Aelita why wouldn't he save Odd?".
"Because he would need to come there in order to do so. Last time he was still part of Lyoko and that's why he didn't need to come there in person. This time it's different" Jason explained.
"And if he came XANA would simply destroy him in matter of seconds" Jeremy said "Kill two flies with one rock".
Jason nodded again "But that's not the worst thing. If XANA successes he will take control of Odd".
"But we would still be able to get him back, right?" Yumi asked him full of hope.
"I'm sorry Yumi, but no" he told her "With his soul gone Odd would stay under XANA's control forever. There would be no way to get him back".
"What about William than? Can we still save him?" Jeremy asked.
"You can. His soul is still in there and if it stays there you will still have a chance".
Warriors went quiet after seeing what was at stake.
"We need to save him" Aelita said and walked towards the elevator "We can't allow him to die on us".
"She is right" Yumi joined "Let's go".
"I will start up virtualization process" Jeremy told them and turned in his chair.
"Wait" Ulrich stopped them suddenly "What about him?".
They looked at Jason.
He sighted "I will stay here if it makes you feel better. Go on".
Ulrich looked at him but decided to let it slide and walked in the elevator.
Trio walked into scanners and later were virtualized.
In the meantime Odd was ready to give one last fight.
"Come and get me you oversized jellyfish" Odd taunted.
Scyphozoa tried to grab him but Odd avoided it few times . He kept doing that until he there was nowhere to back up. Scyphozoa was in front of him ready to strike.
Odd fired energy field at it but missed. Scyphozoa tossed his saber out if his hand. There was nothing else to do. He considered his options but there were only two. Give up or jump over the edge. He had an idea.
Scyphozoa tried to grab him but before it could do so Odd jumped over the edge.
William ran towards the edge and looked down. He didn't see Odd at all.
"Where is he?!" William growled.
Suddenly something wheezed past him.
William turned around and saw Odd flying away.
"After him!" he ordered "Super smoke!".
William and monsters went after Odd. XANA didn't move at all.
"Still fighting even tho there is no escape. Impressive".
Odd was trying to think of a way to get out of this situation. If only others were with him now.
"Odd. Odd. Do you hear me?" Jeremy asked him.
"Einstein?!" Odd asked him surprised "You have no idea how happy I am to hear your voice".
"I think I have some idea" Jeremy told him "Backup is on its was, hold on".
"I will try".
Others were virtualized.
"Call us a taxi Jeremy" Ulrich told him.
"Here you go".
Few seconds later vehicles appeared.
"Thanks Jeremy" Yumi said and boarded her overwing. Ulrich jumped on his overbike. Aelita activated her wings.
"Everybody ready?" Ulrich asked.
Girls nodded.
"Okay, let's go".
In the meantime Odd was avoiding lasers fired by tarantulas and shooting back at them successfully destroying some of them.
Suddenly Odd got shot by black smoke and was sent flying at the wall.
William just stood there laughing "Nice try Odd".
Odd groaned as he got up "Ready for another round William?".
He laughed again "Overconfidence can be deadly sometimes".
Other monsters arrived soon after. Odd was trapped again.
At least Scyphozoa was far away.
"Ten against one huh?" Odd laughed "I have seen worse".
"I bet you did".
Odd attacked the kankrelats first while avoiding attacks from other monsters.
It was a good plan but it couldn't be done while he was alone.
"Jeremy where are the others? I'm not sure if I can do this for much longer".
"They are almost there Odd" Jeremy informed him.
"Tell them to hurry up".
Suddenly he got shot in the stomach and fell on his knee. William walked towards him.
"It's over Odd. Deal with it".
Odd quickly got up and rammed William in the chest knocking him down "It ain't over until I say it's over".
Monster fired at him again but most of the lasers missed their target.
Odd took advantage of this and destroyed two tarantulas.
Kankrelat behind him was ready to fire before it got destroyed by pink energy field. Help has arrived.
Aelita landed next to him while Yumi and Ulrich used their vehicles to ram some monsters out of the way.
"I see you are having great time without us good buddy" Ulrich told him and pulled his sabers out.
Odd chuckled "I would never".
"You okay Odd?" Yumi asked him.
"I'm feeling great. Thanks Yumes".
"Group finally together I see" William said "Shame it won't help you at all".
"We will see about that handsome" Yumi shot back.
Aelita shot few energy fields at William "I got him. You take care of the monsters".
Others nodded and battle begun.
In the lab Jeremy and Jason were watching over everything that's happening.
"What do you think?" Jeremy asked.
"About?".
"Our chances to save Odd".
Jason thought about it for a second "I'm not sure to be honest. They will probably make it if XANA doesn't get there before they do so. But if he does, well, our chances are lower than five percent".
"Is there anything we can do to prevent that?".
"Since XANA bugged devirtualization program for Odd, forced devirtualization isn't a option".
"He did?".
Jeremy decided to check the program and Jason was right. There was a bug.
"I will try to fix it" Jeremy said but Jason stopped him.
"There is not enough time. But there is another way".
"I'm listening".
"You need to bring Odd to way tower and use the same program that you used to bring Aelita to Earth".
"Is it going to work?".
"Probably. You need to trust me".
Jeremy sighted "Okay fine. We will do it your way".
Back on Lyoko fight was nearly over. Only William was left.
"It's over William" Odd said "Give up".
"You are right Odd, it is over" XANA said as he landed next to William.
"You are still outnumbered" Ulrich pointed out.
"Yeah, maybe we are" XANA said "But sometimes numbers mean nothing. Like now".
He launched one of his tentacles at Yumi and stabbed her trough the stomach. Before she was devirtualized XANA used her as a battering ram and knocked Aelita of the plateau.
"Aelita!" Odd shouted as he shot energy field at her and successfully devirtualized her.
"That was really close" Ulrich said as he stood next to Odd "What are we going to do now?".
"Ulrich. Odd" Jeremy called for them.
"Yes Einstein?".
"We need to get Odd to the way tower in order to bring him back. Once you get there Odd needs to get in and for you Ulrich to guard the tower".
"Is it going to work Einstein?" Odd asked him.
"I don't know. Probably" Jeremy answered "At least it's something".
"It's a plan" Ulrich said "But we need to take care of these two first".
William laughed "You to take care of us? Do you even know who are you fighting against?".
Odd looked at him "I think I have some idea".
Ulrich was ready to attack William but suddenly felt Odd placing his hand on his shoulder.
"Teleportation" Odd whispered and soon they got teleported.
When they arrived at their destination Ulrich looked at his friend "What was that?".
Odd chuckled "Remember that plan of Jeremy's to give me new power and how bad it was? Well this is it".
"So cool".
"Yeah. Anyways. Hey Einstein! Is that tower nearby?" Odd asked.
"Just keep heading north, you can't miss it".
"Okay".
Duo went towards the tower and after some time they arrived.
"It's to quiet" Odd noticed "I would say it's a trap".
Plateau in front of them was strange. It was separated in few others plateaus some of them being smaller than others. There was biggest one in the middle.
"Yep, most probably" Ulrich agreed "But we need to get to the other side".
Odd nodded and jumped from another plateau to another with Ulrich being right after him.
When they reached middle one tentacles suddenly appeared out of it and wrapped themselves around Odd paralyzing him.
"Odd!" Ulrich rushed towards his friend. He pulled out his sabres and tried to cut off the tentacles but there was no use "No!".
"There is nothing you can do Ulrich" William said and appeared behind him.
Ulrich turned around "You won't get him".
"But we will" William said and laughed.
Ulrich snapped and rushed at him swinging his sabres and William dodged his attacks.
After some time William successfully knocked Ulrich onto the ground.
"I grew tired of this" William said as he raised his sword and stabbed downed Ulrich successfully devirtualizing him "Victory!".
"NO!" Everybody shouted as they saw Ulrich devirtualizing and Scyphozoa approaching.
Few moments later Ulrich entered the room "I'm sorry, I- I couldn't do anything".
They looked at the screen again and saw that Scyphozoa was nearly there.
Ulrich and Jeremy stared blankly at the screen unable to say anything.
"No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No" Aelita was sobbing while Yumi hugged her while she was almost crying as well.
Jason was standing next to Jeremy and smashed his fist on the keyboard in anger making two boys next to him to jump in surprise.
"Dammit!" he shouted "It can't end like this!".
Jeremy looked at him "There is nothing else we can do now Jason. We did all we could".
"Jeremy is right. We can't go back now and we can't send Jeremy because he is needed here" Ulrich said and shook his head "It's over".
Jason looked at them and clenched his fists. Suddenly he realized something.
"Screw it" he said and went into a jog and ran towards the elevator.
"Where are you going?" Jeremy asked him.
"Send me in there" Jason simply answered.
"What?!" both Jeremy and Ulrich shouted in surprise "Are you serious?".
"Does it look like I'm joking?" he asked them sternly "This is the only thing any of us can do now".
"You are not going to-" Ulrich wasn't able to finish his sentence before Yumi cut him off.
"We have no other choice Ul. If this is the risk we need to take in order to save Odd than we need to do it".
Jeremy and Ulrich exchanged looks but nodded "Okay than. Get down there, I will start the virtualization process".
Jason nodded "And try to get me as close as possible to him".
He entered the scanner room and went into one on the right.
"I'm ready Jeremy".
"Okay. I just hope I'm doing the right thing" Jeremy whispered "Transfer Jason. Scanner Jason. Virtualization".
Jason landed down on the ground and looked around himself. He was in right sector. Than he looked at his outfit. He was wearing blue coat, black boots and blue pants. His weapons were sword that folds in half and pistol that's strapped to his chest. He had mark on his left hand and it was the source of his power. His power included teleportation to close distance, freezing time, spawning marabounta, possession and power blast.
"Jason can you hear me?" Jeremy asked.
"Loud and clear".
"Okay. Odd isn't that far away but you still need to hurry. Scyphozoa is already there".
"On my way" Jason said and started running towards Odd.
Jason was getting a hang of his powers really quickly and was advancing pretty fast.
"Not so far now" he whispered to himself and kept going. After some time he was there. But so was Scyphozoa. And it was already taking Odd's code away.
"Jason hurry!" he could hear Ulrich screaming.
Jason needed to consider all of the possibilities and only one could make this work.
He raised his fist and pointed it at William. Mark on his hand shined.
"Posses" he whispered and his power worked. William was under his control now.
XANA turned towards him "Anything wrong?".
"No master. Everything is alright" William answered.
"Good" XANA said looking at the Scyphozoa holding Odd and taking his code away and walked towards the edge of the plateau "In a less than a minute victory will be mine. And those idiot kids can't do anything to stop that".
While XANA was distracted with monologue William raised his sword and charged it up. When charge was full he released his special slash attack and cut all of the Scyphozoa's tentacles that were holding Odd and he fell on the ground. Scyphozoa made some kind of scretching noice and exploded.
XANA turned around "What is the meaning of this?!".
He saw blue mist exiting William's body and someone appearing behind him.
"YOU!" XANA growled.
Jason smiled "That's right, it's me".
XANA launched tentacle at him but Jason used his power blast and knocked both him and William over the edge. Than he ran towards Odd.
"Jeremy is he?".
"He is okay, you just need to get him to the way tower" Jeremy answered.
Jason picked Odd up and carried him over his shoulder.
"You are going to be fine Odd" Jason told him.
He was finally at the Tower entrance and entered it. Than he placed Odd in the middle circle.
"Alright Jeremy he is ready" Jason informed him and left the tower.
"Launching code earth" Jeremy said.
Suddenly angry growl could be heard from behind Jason.
He turned around and saw XANA rushing at him and grabbing him by the neck.
"YOU FOOL! I WILL NOT BE DISSOBEYED!" XANA growled in his face.
"What can I say, you had it coming" Jason mocked him.
"I WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU REGRET THE DAY YOU TURNED AGAINST ME! AND YOU COULD HAVE EVERYTIHING! BUT NOW YOU WON'T HAVE ANYTHING LEFT!" XANA growled even lauder.
XANA used his claw and slashed through his stomach devirtualizing him.
Exiting the scanner Jason saw the others already in there. He rubbed back of his head in awkwardness and joined them.
Middle scanner opened and everyone hold their breath while white smoke cleared out. Wave of cheers went through the room as Odd leaned outside the scanner trying to catch his breath. He stepped out of the scanner and almost tripped but Aelita and Ulrich grabbed him before he could do so.
"Hello Odd" Aelita said and hugged him.
Odd tried to return the hug but he was too weak.
Jason walked towards him "Are you okay?".
Everyone waited for Odd's response.
Odd looked at him "I'm okay Jas, thank you".
Jason sighted in relief "Good to hear".
Everyone got to the lab and helped Odd to get comfortable.
They lay him down next to the wall. Aelita sat next to him and placed his head in her lap.
"I got him" she told them.
They nodded and gathered around Jason.
"I think it's time to explain everything to you guys" he said.
Others nodded "It really is".
"Okay. So this how it all went down-".
This is it for this chapter guys. I hope you enjoyed it and I would like if you tell me your opinion about this story so far. Until next time, peace out.