A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed and here we go.

The sunset coated the city of Italy in an orange glow and extended the shadows of the alleys and tall buildings shrouding everything they touched in peaceful darkness.

Though the only thing that wasn't at peace was small playground and in it's sandbox was a child with blonde hair, the poor soul was crying his knees were covered in cuts and bruises.

"Hey are you okay?" The small boy looked up to see another boy not much older than he was.

"No" The boy sniffled. "My sisters left me here all alone just so they could hang out with their stupid boyfriends!" He started crying louder.

The other boy looked at him with sympathetic eyes and pulled him into a hug.

"What's your name?" He asked once the blonde had calmed down.

"Odin Della Robbia" He sniffled brushing his blonde hair out of his eyes showing off his hazel brown eyes.

"Odin?" The boy asked raising an eyebrow at the name.

"Yeah it's embarrassing I know" Odin blushed.

"Not really" The brunette smiled. "I think that it's cool" The boy pulled away. "My names Alexander but I preferred to be called Xander for short"

"Then you can call me Odd" Odin giggled.

Xander turned around and crouched down. "Hope on Odd I'll take you home"

Odd smiled and climbed on Xander's back.

(Present day, digital sea)

"...and that's how we met" Xander finished from his seat on the bed.

Odd stared dumbfounded, he had not believed X.A.N.A as he thought it was just one of his mind games but since he knew how they met and that Odd's full name was Odin it had to be true.

Unable to control himself any longer Odd leapt forward and tackled his friend onto his back and started sobbing uncontrollable.

"I...I thought you were dead, I visited your grave everyday for three months!" Odds voice was muffled against Xander's chest.

"I know I guise I have some explaining to do?" Xander said.

Odd suddenly pulled away his relieved expression exchanged for an angry one.

"You sure as hell do! You killed Aelita! You stole Ulrich's body! You made Yumi fall into the digital sea and I've lost count of the times you've almost got somebody killed!" Odd yelled.

Xander sighed and gave Odd a serious look. He placed a hand on Odd's chest and pushed him to the side of him.

"After the car crash I was in critical condition but as you know by now, Franz Hopper has connections, he knew my parents and as a favour to them he transferred my consciousness into the supercomputer so my mind would live on"

Odd was shocked by the brunette-blues words.

"But I soon started to long for the real world and it seemed that Franz had abandoned me but then I saw Aelita. Odd believe me if I had known she was human I would have never attempted to kill her but I thought it was her that kept me here and that if I destroyed her I'd be free"

"So what changed?" Odd asked.

"After you brought her to your world I realized that she had to be human so I decided to try a different approach. I didn't know that stealing her memory would kill her but I still wasn't able to come home so I thought Lyoko was holding me back and set out to destroy it"

"And you took William in the process" Odd crossed his arms and cocked an eyebrow.

"There was no other way to destroy the core, I was planning to free him once it was done but..." Xander's voice trailed off.

"You still weren't free" Odd finished.

"Yes but then I got another idea"

"What now Doctor Zhivago?" Odd hissed it was obvious that resentment towards his friend was becoming more and more evident.

"You"

Odd froze at these words.

"The moment I saw you on Lyoko I knew it was you, the way you acted the way you talked it was obvious" Xander smiled and placed a hand on Odd's shoulder.

"But what do you need me for and why wait until now?" Odd asked.

"To answer your second question I couldn't contact you before no matter how hard I tried but when you came to Lyoko today I sensed that your body and resilience was low-"

"My flu!" Odd exclaimed.

"Exactly, it gave me an opportunity and I took it. the beam William shot at you didn't just take away your abilities it made it so you could enter the digital sea without disappearing" Xander answered.

Odd nodded in understanding. "And to answer my first question?"

"I need a body"

"Huh?"

"None of the others would believe but I know you would I need you to help me make a body so that I can finally be free" Xander stood up and looked at his friend with hopeful eyes.

"Look" Odd sighed getting up to meet his friends eye level. "There is nothing I would like more than to take you back to the earth with me but I don't have the brains to help you"

"You don't need to do anything you have the key to Lyoko" Xander reached out his arm and placed on Odd's chest.

"Uh sorry but that's Aelita remember" Odd said bluntly backing away.

"No" Xander shook his head. "After the supercomputer was turned back on you were the first one to come here and by doing so absorbed a second key that acted as the virtual compound that allowed free materialization between our worlds, so in a manner of speaking you've become the prince of Lyoko"

Odd blushed at the sound of the title and felt a warm sensation in his chest. He looked down to see a blue glow emanating from his chest. "Is this...the key?"

Xander didn't say anything but his eyes said it all.

"Okay" Odd said, expelling any doubt from his mind and heart and nodded his head firmly. "I'll help you get back to the real world, what do I do?"

(Earth)

After school had finished the Lyoko Warriors had gone to Sector Five and had managed to retrieve some data before William and his cronies overwhelmed them and Jeremie was in the process of deciphering it.

"Well? Anything?" Ulrich asked tensely, tapping his fingers against the surface of the wall.

"I'm going as fast I can, be patient!" Jeremie snapped, it was hard to work with his friends breathing down his neck.

"We can't afford to wait!" Ulrich yelled slamming his fist on one of the arms of the chair.

"Ulrich!" Yumi grabbed the German boys arm and led him to the elevator. "We need to talk"

Ulrich tried to protest but Yumi wasn't listening and after shoving him into the elevator she closed the door and roughly slammed against the wall.

"What's wrong with you?" She asked. "We're all worried about Odd but you don't see us trying to bite each others heads off!"

Ulrich looked like he was about to yell but only a frustrated sigh escaped his lips and looked down.

Yumi crossed her arms and waited for one of Ulrich's snarky comments but only heard soft sobbing.

"Ulrich?"

"Why would X.A.N.A want Odd? He was no threat he was just some dumb kid" the tears started flowing down Ulrich's cheeks and started dripping on the floor.

This tugged at Yumi's heartstrings. She wrapped her arms around Ulrich's shoulders and pulled him into a hug.

"I know what you mean he was always like a dorky little brother to all of us" She said softly feeling tears start to sting her own eyes. "But we'll get him back and then things can go back to the way they were, corny jokes and all"

Ulrich laughed a little through his sobs.

"Thanks Yumi"

After the two had composed themselves they went back down to the computer room and were met by Aelita who looked like she had seen a ghost.

"You two are not going to believe this" She said, guiding the two to the Supercomputer.

"From some of the data you retrieved form Sector 5 I was able to get this" Jeremie brought up a picture of two boys one had blonde hair with purple highlights it was obvious that he was Odd and sitting next to him on the park bench was a boy with black hair and blue highlights.

"This is part of XANA's personal memory"

"Do you mean to tell me that...?" Yumi's voice trailed off.

"But it couldn't be!" Ulrich gasped.

"We are looking at XANA and Odd!" Jeremie exclaimed.

A/N: End of part 2 of 3 or 4 hope you liked.