Episode three: "Saving Private Odd"

"Ok guys, head south of your position, there should be a long passageway that leads to the new terminal." Jeremy was directing the gang (now including William) through Sector 5.

"I can't wait to see the new terminal you programmed Jeremy." Aelita said, proud of Jeremy.

"If this works then all of you will be able to use the terminal in sector five instead of just Aelita." Jeremy looked over at the center monitor. "It should be just ahead."

"We see it Jeremy." William replied, taking his sword off his shoulder and placing it on the ground.

"Good, any volunteers?" Jeremy asked.

"I'll try it out!" Odd said, excitement in his voice.

"Ok Odd, just place your hand on the terminal and we'll see if it works." Jeremy couldn't hold in the excitement he felt for this. If this worked he would use it to program the towers so anyone could deactivate them, making their lives easier.

Odd moved over to the terminal with a brisk pace. His arm stretched out as he reached the terminal, his hand placed in the center. After a couple seconds the terminal came to life, displaying random information that no one except Aelita and Jeremy could understand. "It worked, Jeremy." Odd said, glad to see it working.

"That's great! Now, who's next?" Jeremy asked, a his newly formed smile covering the majority of his lower face.

"I'll go next..." Ulrich was interrupted by a group of six mantis swarming them.

"Jeremy!" Yumi yelled, "Where's the heads up?"

"They just showed up on my screen, I couldn't see them earlier."

"We need vehicles Jeremy." Odd pointed out, retracting his hand from the terminal.

"Should be there now." Jeremy said having just finished putting in the code. "I don't have a vehicle for you yet William, so just hitch a ride with Ulrich."

"Roger that." William said, acting as though he was responding to a military order through radio.

As the vehicle appeared Odd hooped on his overboard, Yumi her overwing, William and Ulrich the overbike and Aelita activated her wings, soaring into the air.

"Watch out, they're moving in on you guys!" Jeremy warned as he watched the monsters move into a linear formation and speed ahead towards the Warriors.

Odd fired a few laser arrows at the group of monsters, nicking one on its side. "So close." He said.

"Hey Ulrich, " William said, "get close to the center of them, I'm going in."

Ulrich zoomed forward, revving up his bike. As the got close the mantis they were bombarded with laser fire. Ulrich was hit once but worked through the hit, not even flinching at the hit.

"Geronimo!" William yelled as he jumped off of the overbike and onto a mantis, sending it out of formation and into the one next to it. William used his large sword to slice through the mantis on his left, the explosion from the destroyed monster sending the mantis William was on spinning out of control. He began to slip, trying to hold into it with his sword. In doing this he accidentally hit X.A.N.A.'s mark on the monster, destroying it.

"Help!" He yelled as he began a free fall to his death. Ulrich swooped down from his current position, laser fire coming at him from all sides. As William was about to hit his end, Ulrich drove below him, catching him and saving his life.

"Thanks, Ulrich." William said, sincerely grateful.

"You owe me one." Ulrich replied, his attention refocusing on the situation at hand.

Yumi and Aelita worked together to surround two mantis, destroying both of them almost simultaneously.

"I think I got enough data from Odd's test to understand how everything will work, you guys can go thought the tunnel and into the mountain sector now so I can devirtualized you." Jeremy said, a relief to the weary warriors.

"Ok Jeremy, we're on our way out." Aelita said, beginning to move towards the opening. As all of the Lyoko Warriors made there way out and landed on a large plateau.

"Ok, I'm bringing you guys in." Jeremy said. "Materialization Yumi, materialization William, materialization Ulrich, materialization Aelita, materialization Odd."

*Beep* *Beep*

Jeremy had a puzzled look on his face as he looked at the red exclamation point on his monitor. 'A materialization problem, but how?' Jeremy thought, wondering what had happened.

The elevator doors slid open to reveal only four of the five warriors, Odd missing. They all had a puzzled expression on their faces.

"Jeremy, what happened with Odd?" Aelita asked, concerned about her friend.

"I don't know... He doesn't show up on Lyoko but he never came back." Jeremy was just as confused as the others, unsure what to do.

"Jeremy, "Yumi said, "what about the terminal experiment, Odd was the only one who tried it and now he's gone."

"I'll check." Jeremy said, sounding disappointed in himself for not programming the terminal better. As he searched for any signs of Odd, he found a fragment of his code was stored in each terminal on Lyoko, making getting all of then a tedious task.

"Well?" Ulrich asked, very concerned for his friend but not as open with it as the others appeared.

"Well, his data fragments have been spread throughout every terminal on Lyoko, I'll need some more time to analyze this before we can take any action."

"How long will that take?" William asked.

"About two hours before I know exactly what is happening." Jeremy replied.

"What about school? Classes start in an hour." Ulrich pointed out.

"Make up an excuse for him, he won't probably be out of there until the afternoon."

"Got it Jeremy, and what about you?" Ulrich asked.

"Just say I was sick with the same thing as Odd." Jeremy said, sounding slightly serious in saying this.

"We better get off to class," William said, "If I'm late for Ms. Hertz class one more time I'll get detention, and I don't need another one on my record."

With that the gang left Jeremy to his work and headed back to campus.

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Ulrich entered Ms. Hertz class and sat at his usual table. When attendance was called and neither Jeremy nor Odd answered back, Ms Hertz asked, "Ulrich, where are Jeremy and Odd?"

"They both have the flu, they're resting in bed." Ulrich could only hope his internal fear of her knowing he was lying would never become reality.

"Alright. Everyone open to chapter six in your textbooks..."

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