Disclaimer: I own nothing. Sorry for the shortness of this chapter.

"Where am I?" asked Odd. All he could see in the darkness he was in were numbers flowing everywhere in what could only be compared to streams of water, though they didn't project much serenity as normal streams would. Odd tried to move but he saw that he was bound by chains onto some surface, though Odd couldn't see anything.

"Hello Odd," laughed Xana's voice from everywhere at once, "I hope you are enjoying your stay here so far."

"I said where am I?" yelled Odd anxiously.

"Geographically you are in America, though in the internet, geography doesn't matter," stated Xana matter-of-factly, "But look, some old friends are here to see you."

As Xana finished figures that looked like Aelita, Jeremie, Yumi, and Ulrich approached him in their Lyoko forms except for Jeremie who didn't have one.

"Hey Odd," smirked the form Ulrich as he handled his katana, "It's nice to see you." As he was saying this, he brought down his katana down into Odd's stomach.

Odd screamed, the pain was intense! It was not like Lyoko, where there was only a small sting when one got hurt, it felt so real. The pain receded and Odd felt as if his stomach was sewing itself up. His relief was short-lived as Yumi tossed her fans at him and Aelita fired an energy blast while Jeremie stabbed him with a knife.

"Starting now, you will be tortured by your so-called friends for 24 hours," taunted Xana.

Odd screamed as the figures of his friends repeated their actions with increasing vigor. After what felt like an hour Odd heard Xana say, "Only 23 hours and 59 minutes to go."

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"Where's Odd?" Ulrich almost shouted at Tom, "What happened to him?!!!"

"Xana would've taken him to a secret hiding place in the internet," replied Tom sadly, "He has lots of those. I don't even know how to get to any of them without his help."

"Well, we can use a scanner or something to find him can't we?" asked Ulrich worried about his best friend, "Who knows what Xana is doing to Odd!"

Yumi grabbed his hand in an effort to calm him down, "Don't worry Ulrich, we'll find him."

Ulrich calmed down at this, "Thanks Yumi. I'm just worried about Odd. He's my best friend."

"The main problem we can deal with right now is how we are going to explain Odd's disappearance," said Aelita, "Plus Tom is still wanted for stabbing Jeremie."

"I think I got the solution to that," put in Tom, "I still have some power Xana gave when I served him so I can make myself look like Odd, if that's okay with you four."

"Well I don't see any other solution," Jeremie said after a moment of silence, "I will be working on the scanner, it should be able to track Odd better than Xana since we have his template from Lyoko."

"I'll help you," Aelita said grabbing his hand, "I'm worried about Odd too and don't like the idea of doing nothing while Xana has him."

Tom reached for the power Xana hadn't took from him and transformed into Odd, "I suppose I'll need Ulrich's and Yumi's help to behave like Odd," he said.

This left Jeremie and Aelita alone to work on the scanner. After a few minutes Jeremie calmed down enough to begin thinking. Where would Xana strike at next? What was he doing to Odd? Aelita had similar thoughts and she felt tears in her eyes.

"Are you okay Aelita?" asked Jeremie in concern.

"I just feel bad," replied Aelita, "I noticed that Odd was acting Odd, but I did nothing. I'm a bad friend."

Jeremie felt himself look up at Aelita instinctively, "It isn't your fault Aelita," he said, "It's Xana's fault for doing this and you shouldn't feel too guilty. None of us knew there was anything wrong with Odd until it was too late.

Aelita wiped a tear from her eye and smiled. Not a big smile mind you, for she was still concerned about Odd, but she was happy that Jeremie managed to put her guilt at ease for a moment. She kissed him on a cheek, making him go red a bit and asked him how the scanner was going to work. They would find Odd soon. They would never abandon him.

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Odd gasped in pain. He didn't know how much more pain he could take. Then, as the image of Jeremie approached him, he felt pain shoot through him and the mark on his hand glowed bright. Odd broke free from whatever bound him and attacked Jeremie. He saw Jeremie disappear and repeated the process with the images of his other friends. Odd felt terrible pain shoot threw him and somehow lost consciousness even though he was in some database.

Xana smirked, "This is your first step towards your servitude toward me, Odd. I think you deserve a gift."

Xana then placed a few files of his own invention in Odd and laughed., "You will enjoy these Odd and serve me forever."

A/N. Man, Xana is so evil. What's going to happen next? What files did Xana insert in Odd? Why am I asking you these questions? Please read and review! God bless!