Binas: I hope the Omake satisfied you enough until now. I came up that Omake around third period today. Let's say those kinds of students Odd was forced to deal with are similar to the kids I am stuck with when I am in the more rowdy periods. Trust me, one of the people who likes trying to get on my nerves with flirting, is a player boy who I have seen date several girls at once. All of the jocks I have ran into love trying my nerves and drive me crazy with garbage about their friends madly in love with me. And yes, some of the girls at my school SHAVE SECTIONS OF THEIR HAIR OFF AND WEAR SKIMPY CLOTHES (or as skimpy as they can get with dress codes). *Shudders*
Now that I got THAT out of the way, on wards now! We have a story to complete!
By the way, I miss your guy's reviews! I am curious on what goes on in your heads when you read this story! You don't need an account to review! Trust me, I have done that before!
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Last time...
"I'm warning you: this is com-plete-ly crazy!", Jeremie said.
Jeremie inserted the CD and opened up the audio program. Inuyasha braced himself for any possible scratchy noises like the last time.
"BREAK! BREAK! BREAK DANCE! HERE WE GO!"
It was Odd's music video. Jeremie was surprised and same went for the others. Aelita blinked a few times. Inuyasha winced as his ears fell flat. Ulrich face palmed. Yumi shook her head in disdain.
"HUH?!", Jeremie asked, "NOT THIS AGAIN! ODD!"
Jeremie turned off the music video and ejected the CD.
"I didn't put it there!", Odd said, "Don't look at me!"
"What the seven hecks was THAT?!", Inuyasha asked.
"Odd's dumb music video.", Jeremie said, "I had a run in with it when we materialized Aelita for the first time."
"Hey! It's not dumb! It's one of my best!", Odd said.
'I can only imagine how horrible the others were...', Inuyasha thought.
Jeremie didn't even bother to respond to that cause the answer was pretty obvious. Jeremie picked up the correct CD and put it into the computer.
"I can help you…I want to enter into contact with you now…I am Franz Hopper…"
"I don't believe this!", Odd said.
"I am Franz Hopper?", Aelita asked.
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Inuyasha with the other Lyoko Warriors, was protecting Aelita as she worked the interface in Sector Five. Inuyasha was still a bit ticked off at the fact there was a timer and pretty much went looking all over the place for the timer until Jeremie told him that Odd found the key that stops the timer and that the timer is only visible from outside of Lyoko on the Supercomputer's monitor.
Four Mantas began shooting at the Lyoko Warriors. Odd jumped into the air as he dodged a laser and landed on the bridge like a cat. Another laser was deflected by Ulrich's katana. Yumi caught one of her, currently flying, fans and sent her other fan at one of the Mantas. Inuyasha was on top of one of the Mantas as he smashed his Tessaiga into the Manta, not even aiming for the Eye of XANA.
"COME ON! DIE ALREADY!", Inuyasha shouted angrily as he swung away at the Manta's back like an idiot.
"Hit the marking that looks like an eye! That's the weak spot on all the monsters!", Ulrich said.
Inuyasha then took Ulrich's advice and swung his Tessaiga on the Eye of XANA. The Manta exploded from underneath him. With no ground underneath him, Inuyasha fell screaming like a little girl.
"Inuyasha, did you forget that you could FLY on Lyoko?", Jeremie asked.
Inuyasha stopped screaming and began trying to focus on what he noticed when he accidentally flown in the Mountain Sector. He was about to hit the Digital Sea like Celestial Dome when the familiar pink mist surrounded Inuyasha, causing him to freeze in his fall. His tail was only centimeters away from sealing the fate of deletion. With a wobbly start, he started to fly back up.
Yumi caught her fan and held it tightly.
"I've got a bad feeling about this. Are you almost done, Aelita?", Yumi asked.
"Almost.", Aelita said as she looked through the interface, sending information to Jeremie.
Ulrich sliced his Manta as Odd shot arrow heads at another. Both Mantas exploded. One dirty little Manta, however, shot Ulrich. Ulrich yelped.
"Watch out! Three more Mantas are coming your way!", Jeremie warned.
Three new Mantas hatched from their nests and flew towards the Lyoko Warriors. Yumi yawned.
"Here come the new bouncing babies!", Odd said.
"WIND SCAR!", Inuyasha shouted sending said attack at a Manta, hitting the Eye of XANA, thus destroying it.
Inuyasha then landed on the bridge and sent a nasty glare at the Mantas. The one of the Mantas promptly shot him, costing Inuyasha fifty life points, which was a lot considering he got himself shot by a Krab earlier.
"Be careful, Inuyasha! You only have forty life points left! You can't afford being reckless like Odd!", Jeremie said.
"I am not that reckless!", Odd said as he did a one hand stand as he shot at a Manta.
"Then what do you call that?", Ulrich asked.
"Being awesome!", Odd said proudly as he back flipped off his handstand.
"Yeah right.", Yumi said.
"That was the last of it Jeremie. I am giving the controls back to you.", Aelita said.
"I got them. Now here are your vehicles.", Jeremie said as the Overboard, Overbike, and Overwing materialized.
"What?! We're going already? I just starting to have fun!", Odd whined ironically as Ulrich deflected another laser.
Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd got on their respective vehicles. Aelita got on the Overwing with Yumi.
"Inuyasha! look out behind you!", Jeremie yelled.
Inuyasha looked behind himself and saw the familiar jellyfish. Aelita coward a bit at seeing it.
"YOU AGAIN!", Inuyasha spat and pointed his sword at the Scyphozoa, "COME FOR A REMATCH?!"
"Inuyasha! Don't fight it! Get away from it!", Ulrich shouted.
The Scyphozoa's tentacles slithered towards Inuyasha. Inuyasha backed away a bit.
"WIND SCAR!", Inuyasha shouted.
The Wind Scar slammed into the Scyphozoa, sending it back a bit. The Scyphozoa didn't retreat, it continued coming towards Inuyasha.
"What an idiot!", Yumi exasperated.
"Tell me about it.", Odd said and aimed at the Scyphozoa.
"Not you too!", Ulrich shouted.
Before Inuyasha could hack his Tessaiga way at the Scyphozoa, the Scyphozoa's tentacles grabbed Inuyasha successfully and the Scyphozoa began it's work.
"Laser Arrow!", Odd shouted as he shot two Laser Arrows.
"Hiiiiiiiiiyaaaaah!", Yumi shouted as she threw her fans.
The Scyphozoa needed to complete this mission and couldn't afford to drop Inuyasha and flee, so it took the hits.
"It's not dropping him Jeremie!", Aelita said.
"Find a way to get it to drop him! Quick! I am sure we don't want to find out what XANA wants with Inuyasha!", Jeremie said.
"I am going in and run over that over grown jellyfish! BAAAAAAAANNNNZIIIIII!", Ulrich said with his katana pointing at the Scyphozoa.
The Scyphozoa dropped Inuyasha and retreated. Ulrich yelped as he went hurdling for the outer part of the Celestial Dome. He quickly hacked his katana at the Overbike, dematerializing it. He then used his katana to to devirtualize himself before he hit the outer Celestial Dome. He was successful.
Inuyasha was a bit disoriented as he got up.
"Inuyasha, are you okay?", Jeremie asked.
"I think so.", Inuyasha said, "That stupid lucky scoundrel of a jellyfish!"
"Come on Inuyasha! Let's get out of here before it comes back!", Odd said.
Inuyasha didn't really have much of a choice because Odd swooped in, grabbed his arm, and dragged him away into an open data tunnel as he tailed behind the others. Inuyasha wore a frown of irritation from the moment he was scooped up.
"Get Inuyasha to a tower. We better hope that the Scyphozoa didn't steal or plant anything from him!", Jeremie said.
"On it Einstein.", Odd said.
"Why do I keep getting into these stupid situations?", Inuyasha asked blatantly as he closed his eyes half way with his brows lowered a bit as his tail wagged in annoyed matter.
In a tower in the Forest Sector...
Inuyasha stood in the center of a tower by himself with the others waiting outside.
"I am beginning the analysis now. So stay still.", Jeremie said.
The analysis begun on Inuyasha. It was weird but didn't last long. When it was over he waited idly for a few minutes.
"Well, nothing was taken from you nor did it plant any viruses in you. It appears all it did was scan you. Why it did, I do not know and I hope XANA doesn't pull anything involving those scans.", Jeremie said, "Hang on, I am bringing you all in."
A few minutes later in the lab...
Everyone watched in anticipation, whether they were showing it or not {*Cough*Inuyasha*Cough*}. Data streamed across the screens.
"So? Anything good?", Aelita asked finally.
"No, I wouldn't call it good…", Jeremie said.
"What?! So we went there and all we got was a bunch of junk?!", Inuyasha asked in irritation.
"More like amazing!", Jeremie said, finishing his own sentence in excitement.
"You really need to let him finish sometimes to understand what he is saying.", Odd whispered to Inuyasha.
"Yes!", Aelita said.
"With this, I bet I can crack the code of Franz Hopper's diary!", Jeremie said in excitement.
"Way cool!", Ulrich said with a smile.
"The only problem is I'm going to need a supercomputer to process such a large amount of data! I'll have to activate a tower or two!", Aelita said.
"Uh, that didn't go very well last time. XANA hates it when we play with his toys.", Yumi said.
"What happened last time?", Inuyasha asked.
"Jeremie used a tower not to long ago to give me abilities like a XANAfied person with a tower. Let's say XANA was not to fond of the idea and hacked it.", Odd said.
"Well then, I guess we will have to tick XANA off and mess with his toys.", Inuyasha said.
"Right, can we go eat now? It's mashed potatoes today!", Odd said thinking with his stomach, again.
"You can have mine. I'd better stay here to prepare the mission. That way, we can set out right after lunch!", Jeremie said.
Inuyasha frowned a bit. He knew that was not such a good idea.
Later in the cafeteria...
Rosa, the lunch lady, plopped some mashed potatoes and the kid she just served left the the line to go eat. Odd came up to her next with his plate. Rosa gave him his portion.
"Um…Jeremy's not coming, he said I could have his portion too, Rosa!", Odd said slightly embarrassed.
Rosa then poured a second portion onto Odd's plate, making Odd smile.
"With everything you put away I just don't understand how you can still be so scrawny!", Rosa said.
"I am not scrawny, I'm svelte!", Odd said slightly offended.
"You're right. You are are more of a squirt.", Inuyasha said.
Odd looked at Inuyasha with a slightly annoyed look. He had recently decided to pull out a dictionary and learned what 'squirt' meant.
"I am not a squirt either!", Odd said.
"If you were Jaken I would offer to stretch you out.", Inuyasha said.
Odd cringed. He didn't like that idea at all. After the group, minus Jeremie who was still working his butt off on decoding Franz's diary, got their food, they headed to their table.
"So come on Ulrich, stop holding out on us! What's your overall average?", Odd asked.
"Seventy three for the term.", Ulrich said.
"Well me, I got seventy five! I beat you!", Odd said boastfully with his mouth full.
"Only because you made up some points in art class!", Ulrich pointed out.
"What did you get Inuyasha?"
"What I got?", Inuyasha asked, clearly confused.
"Your current grades.", Ulrich said.
"I am not sure. There's a bunch of nonsense written on this paper!", Inuyasha said handing Ulrich his report card.
"You got a seventy five as well. You're tied with Odd.", Ulrich said, "By the looks of it, making Jim look stupid in giving you punishments in gym seemed to have made up a few points."
"He hasn't seen anything yet.", Inuyasha said, "You only saw part of it, Odd."
"You said my name! You finally said it!", Odd cheered with his mouth full, accidentally spraying some food.
"Cut that out! Do you want me to call ya something worse than 'Squirt'?", Inuyasha snapped covering his ears.
"What about you, Aelita? What's your grade point average?", Ulrich asked, changing the subject back to what it was.
"Ninety-five point two.", Aelita said.
Odd, Inuyasha, and Ulrich's jaws went dropping.
"Uhhhh?!", Ulrich, Odd, and Inuyasha asked in surprise.
"Um…but it's only because of math!", Aelita said blushing in embarrassment a bit.
"Yes, but still, you must've gotten good grades in all your classes! That's great! Especially since you're not really... uh... I mean...", Ulrich stuttered as Inuyasha gave a look that said 'your not telling me something'.
"Don't worry, I know very well I'm not really human. Still, sometimes I get a strange feeling, as if…as if I've already lived here…weird, huh?", Aelita said.
"Oh, that's just the 'Magical Odd Effect'! You know, you see me once, and you feel you've known me forever!", Odd said and accidentally got mashed potatoes on his nose.
"Hey, Magic Odd Effect, you know you got some mashed potatoes right on your face!", Ulrich said pointing to his own nose making Aelita snicker.
Odd tried to find the mashed potatoes on his face and ended up looking like he was cross eyed. Once Odd saw the potatoes, he wiped the mashed potatoes off his nose. Inuyasha gave a pointed look.
"What do you mean she isn't human? She smells completely human to me.", Inuyasha said.
"It's kinda a long story...", Odd said.
"Jeremie found me on the supercomputer when he turned it on.", Aelita said.
"And is that when XANA decided to make a mess?", Inuyasha asked.
"Yes. That was the main reason that he wanted to materialize me. Odd tells me that the other reason is that Jeremie fell for me.", Aelita said as she began to blush.
"Why is your face all red?", Inuyasha asked.
Odd and Ulrich snickered at Inuyasha's obliviousness to Aelita's feelings for Jeremie. They would have to give him a lesson in spotting love when it's there. After they finished their lunch for the day, they left the cafeteria. Odd suddenly got a text and decided to check it. His eyes widened and gasped.
"NO WAY!", Odd squealed causing the others to turn around.
"Something wrong?", Ulrich asked.
"Not really. Some girl wants me to meet her in the woods!", Odd said.
Inuyasha face palmed.
'All of that noise over a girl?! Humans are getting stupider!', Inuyasha thought.
"You kidding? Who?", Aelita asked.
"The number's masked. No doubt about it: it's just another girl who's too shy to admit she's crazy about me!", Odd said proudly.
"You know, Odd, your love life is like something out of a soap opera!", Ulrich said.
"A what?", Inuyasha asked.
"Oh yeah, and yours is real simple, hm?", Odd countered making Aelita giggle a bit.
Odd then walked away towards off campus.
What was left of the ground headed towards one of their hang out areas. Inuyasha sat up in a tree like he usually does. He managed to rest for a about fifteen minutes before he heard Ulrich's cell phone go off.
"Inuyasha! Jeremie needs us at the factory!", Ulrich said.
Inuyasha jumped out of the tree and tailed behind Ulrich and Aelita as the latter two started sending messages to Yumi and Odd.
From a distance, Kagome watched in confusion.
'What has gotten into him? Inuyasha has been acting strangely since we got here. He normally doesn't like being around kids THAT much. What if, Inuyasha was right about something being off about being here? I will have to ask him when we get a chance to talk to each other...', Kagome thought.
In the forest...
Odd walked through the forest, calling out for his potential lover.
"Uh…are you there?", Odd called out, "It's me, Odd!"
Odd's cell phone went off. It was a text from Ulrich.
"What do you mean, SOS XANA?!", Odd said in disbelief, "No way! Not now!"
He sighed in exasperation. He knew stopping XANA was his top priority. The sooner they unplugged XANA, no pun intended, the sooner he could have all the girls he ever wanted. Though a part of him would miss the days of being a hero.
Suddenly, rustling of bushes sounded. Odd perked up in slight fear.
"Who's there?", Odd asked as a shadow loomed past him from behind, "Huh?... AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
Birds flew away as the four-foot-eight shadowy figure dragged Odd away. Odd should have known this was a trap. He struggled for a bit and before he knew it, he was knocked out cold. What he last saw was a copy of himself and the infamous Eye of XANA. It was certain now, it was a trap.
'You are such a dirty AI, XANA!', Was Odd's thought before he fully lost conscious.
In the lab...
The elevator opened to reveal Yumi, Ulrich, Aelita, and Inuyasha. Odd was missing from the bunch.
"Where's Odd?", Jeremie asked.
"I sent him a text message, but was supposed to be meeting some sort of mystery girl!", Ulrich said.
"A girl? What girl?", Jeremie asked.
"Mystery girls don't leave their names!", Ulrich said.
"Not only do we have to decode Franz Hopper's notes, but now we have to deactivate the tower as well!", Jeremie said and pulled up Odd's phone number on the Supercomputer.
No response. Just ringing and a 'Not available' tone.
"He's not picking up.", Jeremie said, "Head to the scanners. You will have to go without him."
Inuyasha, Yumi, Aelita, and Ulrich went to the scanner room. Aelita remained back while the others went into the scanners.
"Transfer Ulrich. Transfer Yumi. Transfer Inuyasha.", Jeremie said as the doors closed on said three individuals, "Scanner Ulrich. Scanner Yumi. Scanner Inuyasha. Virtualization!"
On Lyoko in the Mountain Sector...
A few moments later, Ulrich, Yumi, and Inuyasha appeared on Lyoko. Afterwards, so did Aelita.
In the lab...
The elevator opened to reveal Odd.
"Here I am, Jeremy!", Odd said.
"Not a minute too soon, I've been trying to call you!", Jeremie said.
"I was... uh... Busy.", Odd said, sounding like he was covering something up.
"Get to the scanner room. I am starting up the procedure now.", Jeremie said.
Odd went down to the scanner room and stepped into a scanner.
"Transfer Odd... Scanner Odd... Virtualization!", Jeremie said when a red exclamation point flashed on the monitor.
There was an error in the Virtualization process.
"HUH!?", Jeremie asked and rapidly started to search to find out what went wrong.
In the Mountain Sector...
Odd finally appeared in the sector.
"What's going on?! Odd?! Are you there?!", Jeremie asked.
"Yes. I am here, Jeremie.", Odd said.
"About time too!", Inuyasha said wearing a highly irritated look on his face.
"There was a bug in the transfer!", Jeremie said and paused for a few moments, "The tower just deactivated itself!"
"They can do that?", Inuyasha asked.
"It's more of XANA messing with us by playing boy who cried wolf.", Ulrich said earning groans from Yumi and Jeremie, a highly confused look from Inuyasha, and a small whimper from Aelita when she heard the word 'wolf'.
And the weirdest part, Odd didn't quip a remark at the lame joke.
"Are you sure, Jeremie?", Yumi asked.
"Yeah! The Superscan shows all clear! As if XANA has called off his attack...", Jeremie said.
"Well that's one less thing for us to worry about, right?", Ulrich said and noticed the cold look that Odd was giving.
Odd folded his arms as the cold look seemed to intensify.
"Yeah.", Odd said just as coldly.
"Maybe his rendezvous didn't go well...", Aelita said.
"Figures...", Inuyasha said and folded his own arms, "He looks like Koga when he has failed to make Kagome his woman."
"I am not going to even ask about that.", Ulrich said.
"Same here.", Yumi complied.
"Here come your vehicles. We have Fran's diary to decode. I have selected a tower at seventy-two degrees south and fifty-five degrees west.", Jeremie said as he materialized their vehicles.
Odd got on the Overboard, Yumi and Aelita hopped onto the Overwing, and Ulrich on the Overbike. Inuyasha surrounded himself in pink mist and began a wobbly slight accession into the sky. All four of them took off in the direction Jeremie provided.
Once they reached their rendezvous point, Inuyasha landed while the others got off the vehicles. Aelita entered the tower and began to rise to the upper platform.
"As soon as I activate the tower, you start the decoding process.", Jeremie said.
Aelita walks forward and the interface appeared.
"I am ready, Jeremie.", Aelita said.
"Perfect! I am activating the tower now!", Jeremie said as the tower's halo-like mist turned green, signifying that Jeremie had taken control of the tower and instantly was sent several decoded pieces of Franz Hopper's Diary, "IT WORKS!"
"The decoding of the data's underway, Jeremy! But it might take some time...", Aelita said as she begun the decoding process.
"No problem! Whenever XANA leaves us in peace, everything's cool!", Jeremie said feeling confident that XANA would not rear it's ugly butt face in anytime soon.
Outside, Inuyasha looked at the tower in confusion.
"What's a green tower suppose to mean?", Inuyasha asked.
"It's under Jeremie's control. Just remember that towers that are red are the ones controlled by XANA.", Yumi said.
"Feh.", Inuyasha muttered.
"Uh-oh, I spoke too soon. Watch out, XANA's creatures heading your way!", Jeremie warned.
"But where? We can't see them!", Yumi said.
"I hear them coming.", Inuyasha said as he twitched his ears for emphasis.
Three Tarantulas made themselves known.
"Their here!", Yumi said.
"Wow, XANA's pulled out the big guns!", Ulrich said.
"I don't care what they are cause their going down!", Inuyasha sneered as he gripped the handle of his Tessaiga, ready to get some form of revenge.
Odd shot a Laser Arrow, which bounded off one of the legs of a Tarantula and nearly hit Yumi. Everyone else got their weapons out and/or ready. Odd then unexpectedly shot Yumi.
Inuyasha's face became painted in extreme anger. He stomped over to 'Odd' and Gibbs Slapped him hard.
"WHAT THE **** ARE YA DOING, YA MORON?!", Inuyasha shouted, "AIM FOR THE ******* MONSTERS NOT US!"
'Odd' glared at Inuyasha and shot him with a Laser Arrow. He was about to hit Yumi with one but Inuyasha deflected it with his Demonic Barrier at the last second.
"YOU LITTLE SON OF A GUN!", Inuyasha snarled as he lowered the barrier and cracked his knuckles but 'Odd' was unfazed by this.
"Jeremy! XANA's taken over Odd!", Ulrich shouted.
"WHAT?!", Jeremie shouted.
"Yes, I'm sure of it!", Ulrich said.
"Oh so XANA is pulling the strings, huh?", Inuyasha snarled and inched closer with his sword ready to hack away at XANA-Odd.
The Tarantulas begun firing at the Lyoko Warriors. Ulrich dodged the lasers as he rushed for the Overbike. Once he got on, he got it into flight position and flew off. Yumi followed the suit by getting on the Overwing.
"TRAITORS!", Inuyasha shouted from the ground and gave them the finger.
"YOU CAN FLY, REMEMBER!?", Ulrich shouted from above.
'Why does he have such a short temper?', Ulrich thought.
By this time, Inuyasha finally caught up to Ulrich and Yumi, still wearing his angry look.
"I don't know how XANA did it!", Ulrich shouted.
"Same here.", Yumi said.
"I do. It's not the real Odd.", Jeremie said.
"WHAT THE HECK!?", Inuyasha asked.
"It's one of XANA's Polymorphic Spectres.", Jeremie said.
"Talk about a tailgater! Worse than Sissi!", Ulrich said.
"THAT SCOUNDREL! IT'S JUST AS BAD AS NARAKU!", Inuyasha sneered in immense anger.
'I had no idea he could get THAT angry.', Yumi thought.
"Where is Odd then?", Yumi asked in worry.
At the Hermitage...
The REAL Odd was at the bottom of a rather large, deep drain pipe with a grate over head. He was unconscious. After a few moments, he regained it. He realized the drain was filling with water and he was missing a shoe.
"Huh?", Odd asked and looked above to see the grate and began to climb up but slipped on the slipper rocks that lined the drain, "HEY! IS ANYBODY UP THERE?! HELP! HELP!"
His voice was unfortunetly muffled by his current location of technically being underground.
In the Mountain Sector...
"Yumi, Ulrich, hit me with all you got.", Inuyasha said.
"What?", Yumi asked.
"As much as I want to kick that spectre's butt as much as the next guy, we do have to find where it had taken the real Odd.", Inuyasha said, "I am the only one capable of tracking him effectively. Besides, after what I saw what these things can do to Kagome, I will not let anyone else experience that."
"I didn't know you cared that much.", Ulrich said, "Normally you are muttering a bunch of profanities and insults about pretty much everything."
"Shut up!", Inuyasha said.
"I guess this jerk has a heart of gold after all.", Yumi said.
"I said SHUT UP!", Inuyasha said with a really dirty look, "You guys are ticking me off even more!"
"So much for that.", Ulrich said.
Inuyasha growled like a really angry dog.
"Just send me back already!", Inuyasha snapped.
"If you say so...", Yumi said and threw her fans at Inuyasha, devirtualizing him. Ulrich and Yumi nodded at each other and headed back to the tower but XANA-Odd saw them and shot their vehicles, devirtualizing the vehicles and sending Ulrich and Yumi to the ground.
In the tower...
Aelita was still decoding the diary when she heard Jeremie. Red pulsations slammed into the tower's exterior, affecting it's interior, startling Aelita.
"Jeremie? What's going on?", Aelita asked.
"Oh man! XANA's trying to gain control of the tower! Abort the mission! Stop decoding and come back to Earth!", Jeremie panicked.
Aelita began to try to stop the decoding process. She ran into a major problem, it couldn't be stopped.
"Jeremy, we've got a problem! I can't stop the decoding program! It's taking up too many resources, it's out of my control now!", Aelita said.
"If XANA manages to get control of the tower now, he'll be able to get into the restricted access part of the Supercomputer! I could lose all the data in Franz Hopper's diary!", Jeremie said.
"Not to mention everything you've programmed in yourself! Our combat gear, the vehicles, the transfer codes... And my materialization program...", Aelita said in horror as she looked for a way to stop the process.
"THIS IS A NIGHTMARE!", Jeremie said.
In the lab...
Inuyasha came up from the hatch.
"I am going to go track Odd down.", Inuyasha said with slight irritation as he stormed past Jeremie.
Jeremie was going to mention about him hacking into the network and finding an emergency phone near Odd's cell phone but Inuyasha had already jumped through the hatch in the elevator.
"Doesn't he wait for anything?!", Jeremie exasperated, "I still can't believe he's my roommate!"
'Just be glad your roommate isn't XANA!', Jeremie remembered Odd saying with a slight chuckle at one point.
"That's one thing I am glad about...", Jeremie said knowing how having XANA as a roommate would end and went back to what he was doing, warning Ulrich and Yumi.
With Ulrich and Yumi...
"XANA's trying to take control of the tower! You tow have to stop him!", Jeremie said.
"Alright but how do we do it?", Ulrich asked.
"Isolate the tower by cutting the wires leading to the tower!", Jeremie said.
"Consider it done.", Yumi said.
Ulrich and Yumi dashed for the tower's wires and began attacking them. XANA-Odd approached them.
"I will handle him, Yumi. You keep on trying to cut the wires.", Ulrich said and faced XANA-Odd, "You're wasting your time, XANA! Odd has never beaten me yet!"
At those words, XANA-Odd turned into someone he didn't even know. It was a man with long black hair, red eyes with a white version of the Eye of XANA in them. He was wearing a short kimono with a very dark purple obi with woven sandals. In the middle of his chest was a red and yellow eye that BLINKED.
"Who the heck are you now?", Ulrich asked in confusion and repulsion.
The XANA-Man outstretched his palm and a dark purple misty laser shot out of it. Ulrich dodged the misty laser.
At the same time, the Tarantulas approached Yumi. Yumi threw her fans at two of the Tarantulas. Even though she missed, she quickly used her Telekinesis to redirect the fans, making them slam into the Eye of XANA on two of the Tarantulas. The remaining Tarantula began rapid firing at Yumi, forcing her to dodge.
"This may take awhile.", Yumi said as she caught her fans.
In the forest near the school...
Inuyasha sniffed the ground. He could pick up a faint scent. It was Odd's and was about a few hours old. He followed it for a distance and realized it starting to condense. He was moving slowly here. Sure his nose wasn't as good as Sesshomaru's, but he could tell when someone was moving slowly and when someone was running.
Suddenly, the scent became more spread out. That must of meant he was moving faster than he was previously. Then it was really spread out in two different directions.
"DANG IT!", Inuyasha growled and picked the scent trail that seemed to be stronger.
However Inuyasha regretted following it even farther. He was face to face with the mother of all stenches. Odd's shoe. Inuyasha immediately repulse and plugged his nose before he fainted from the strong, disgusting scent entering his nose.
"XANA you are such a scoundrel!", Inuyasha said becoming very ticked off, as he hated it when his enemies pull this stunt on him.
Inuyasha did what he could. He buried the shoe (like a dog does with a bone except the shoe was not in his mouth) so that he could get rid of the stench and separate it from the other scent.
"I hope he burns that thing!", Inuyasha said after the deed was done, allowing him to breath through his nose again, knowing he won't faint now.
He immediately went back to following the scent trail, which he could make out as the real scent trail. The scent trail was a bit long, but it was more realistic than the scent caused by a lone shoe that smelled worse than the combination of manure, rotten/moldy food, and the ink from the demon painter, who had mixed blood and a Jewel Shard with said ink.
Soon Inuyasha came across an old house that looked abandoned. He sniffed the air around it. Odd's scent was mixed in and was faint and was being diluted by the second. He could hear faint sounds coming from what looked like a garden area.
"HELP!"
It was Odd. Inuyasha dashed to where he heard it from. He saw a drain with a grate on top of it. Down below the grate was Odd, who was treading the water.
"It figures, at least I don't have to climb anymore! Aaaargh! Well I guess you could say I'm really up to my neck in trouble this time!", Odd said shaking the grate, not noticing Inuyasha had found him.
"There you are. So this is where you ended up.", Inuyasha said.
"Inuyasha! Can you get me out of here?!", Odd asked.
"Yeah yeah.", Inuyasha said and ripped off the grate like a band-aid and threw it to the side and pulled Odd out of the drain.
"I would say 'No girl's ever kept me waiting that long' but your a boy.", Odd said.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. At least he knew this was the real Odd, cause not even XANA could replicate Odd's terrible jokes.
"By the way, have you seen my shoe?", Odd asked.
Inuyasha blinked as he tried thinking of a response. He then had a reason not to answer, they were now sitting in a puddle water from the over filled drain.
"Man. If this was a my bed then I would have to say I really had to go.", Odd said with a cheeky grin as he got up and turned off the water.
In the Mountain Sector...
As Ulrich fought the XANA-Man and Yumi fought the Tarantula, the tower's halo started to flicker from green to red.
"Hey, you're not so bad there, XANA! But I am full of surprises!", Ulrich said as he deflected another purple misty laser and jabbed the XANA-Man in the gut with his fist.
During that strike, the XANA-Man swiped Ulrich's katana like a professional thief and pushed Ulrich.
"NO FAIR!", Ulrich said as he was almost half way dangling off the edge of the cliff with the Digital Sea below.
Yumi managed to get the wire half way cut, despite the Tarantula not letting her get a good aim or anything for that matter. Soon it shot Yumi, devirtualizing her.
The XANA-Man was about to deal the blow that would devirtualize Ulrich, but Ulrich managed to use this opportunity and got his katana back and unbalanced the XANA-Man.
"Told you so!", Ulrich said, getting the upper hand again.
In the tower...
"XANA is about to do it! Is there anything new that will help us Aelita?", Jeremie asked.
"No! There's no way to stop the process! Everything's buggy!", Aelita said as anxiety kicked into the atmosphere.
"XANA is about to steal all of my data! We're done for...", Jeremie said in horror and sorrow.
If Aelita could on Lyoko, she would be crying right now.
Outside the now red tower...
Ulrich ran from the XANA-Man with eyes set on the prize that Yumi couldn't get.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, ULRICH?!", Jeremie asked.
"Doing one thing that I can do!", Ulrich said and raised his sword with a battle cry.
Ulrich sliced his sword into the wire Yumi managed to cut half way. He only manage to get half of what was already cut before being shot by a purple misty laser and a laser from the Tarantula, getting devirtualized.
"ULRICH!", Jeremie shouted.
At that moment, the red halo around the tower became white.
In the tower...
"What's going on Aelita?", Jeremie asked.
"I don't get it, it looks like XANA has lost control of the tower!", Aelita said, lifting the sad atmosphere more than a little with the good news.
"Franz Hopper! Franz Hopper's helping us!", Jeremie cheered, "How are things now on your end?"
"The decoding process is back online at full speed!", Aelita said happily.
In the lab...
Yumi and Ulrich looked over Jeremie's shoulders. All three of them stunned by the rapid arrival of the decoded segments of Franz's Diary.
At that moment, Inuyasha and Odd came in.
"Hey guys!", Odd said, "Sorry we are late for the party!"
"Odd! What happened to you?", Jeremie asked.
"XANA thought it was funny to disguise as me and try to drown me in a drain.", Odd said, "So what damages did my evil twin cause?"
"He ticked Inuyasha here enough to swear worse than a sailor by shooting us.", Ulrich said.
"Speaking of which, did your mom ever wash your mouth out with soap?", Odd asked.
"I would shut up right now if I were you...", Inuyasha said.
At that moment the decoding process finished and Jeremie looked like he hit the jackpot.
"The decoding process is finish!", Jeremie said.
Later in Jeremie's room...
Everyone was there, awaiting for Jeremie to tell them his findings in Franz's Diary.
"Franz Hopper was the creator of XANA. In his diary, he wrote down everything that happened during the creation of Lyoko. Everything!", Jeremie said.
"So he created that scoundrel? Why did he?", Inuyasha asked.
"I am currently looking into it. I will let you know when I got information on it.", Jeremie said.
"So that means we'll be able to find the antivirus!", Aelita said happily.
"Yes and I found something else. Before virtualizing himself on Lyoko and being a prisoner of XANA, he lived here on Earth.", Jeremie said.
"We know that already.", Yumi said.
"Yes, but what we didn't know, was that he had a child. A little girl.", Jeremie said.
"Really? Well what became of her?", Odd asked.
"He virtualized her on Lyoko at the same time as himself.", Jeremie said.
"And? Did she fall victim to XANA too?", Yumi asked.
"No, she stayed on Lyoko.", Jeremie said.
"Then where is she on there?", Inuyasha asked.
Jeremie looked at Aelita.
"Huh? But that's impossible! If Hopper's daughter were on Lyoko, I would've definitely known, I...! I'm not...!", Aelita said in shock and saw Jeremie nod, "Oh..."
"What? Am I missing something or what?", Inuyasha asked.
"You know, your cluelessness really spoiled such a dramatic moment!", Odd said in annoyance.