Okay I was seriously going to write this part in somewhere at the end of the first chapter, but I totally forgot and I didn't want to prolong it past a good ending. Sooooo here's what I was going to write before.
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It had been another three days since Jeremy had told them how XANA had gotten away with taking the life of one of their own. Three days of not talking to anyone; including each other save for Odd talking Aelita out of turning off the computer to kill herself, three days of skipping classes, three days of strained fighting on Lyoko and 'just in times' on Lyoko where XANA would nearly win again.
Odd suddenly remembered that he was going to call Hiroki three days ago before Einstein interrupted him. He decided to call Hiroki's phone number again, only to get his voicemail once more. His eyebrows furrowed as he dialed the Ishiyama household's number and waited a few seconds before an answer.
"H-hello?" It was Hiroki's mom that had answered, and she sounded like she was crying.
"Hi, is um…" Odd cleared his throat, "Is Hiroki there?" A loud sob sounded from the other line.
"H-H-He k-killed h-himself…t-t-three d-days ago!" She said loudly before breaking out in sobs again. Odd dropped the phone in shock. Hiroki. Dead. That's all he could think about. His blood ran cold as he fell to his knees on the ground, then onto his hands. He could still barely make out crying on the other end of the phone, before a click, then dial tone.
"Odd?" He heard from behind him. He recognized the voice as Aelita's, but he couldn't face her. He kept his gaze on the ground and willed tears not to fall. "What happened?"
"W-What happened?" He asked back rhetorically. He couldn't take it anymore. He got off his hands and stood up slowly and turned around, head still down. "Hiroki's dead. He killed himself."
"Odd, I'm-"
"DON'T say you're sorry!" Odd was at his breaking point. He only lived for fighting XANA now. Once XANA was gone, he had no purpose. XANA hadn't just taken one life, he took two.
(AN: Okay, beyond this note, it's something else I'm adding on. This is probably going to be the last chapter of this story)
"Goodbye, Odd." Aelita said as she ran into the forest. Odd thought about what she had said for a few minutes more, completely oblivious to her meaning until he remembered another time.
/FLASHBACK/
Odd had just opened the hatch at the top of the elevator after following a distressed Aelita to the factory. He noticed the distinctive glow of the Supercomputer and knew immediately what she was going to do.
"Goodbye, Odd." Aelita said as she was reaching a hand out to the switch.
"Aelita don't!" Odd yelled as he jumped from the top of the elevator.
/END FLASHBACK/
Odd's instincts went into overdrive as he sprinted towards the factory. He didn't recall going down the manhole or going down to rope, or even going down the elevator shaft. All he remembered seeing was Aelita's body lying on the ground, blood seeping out of her wrists, and the supercomputer powered down.
Odd's mind stopped dead. The mixture of red and pink registered in his mind as absolutely wrong. It didn't mix. Numb was all he felt as he noticed a note in the fallen angel's pocket. He sluggishly grabbed it and read it.
Odd,
If you're reading this, I'm dead. So are Ulrich and Jeremy.
Ulrich overdosed on pills, Jeremy hung himself in his room.
I'm sorry you had to find out this way, I truly am. After finding their bodies, I knew I had to shut down XANA. I had to. And this was the only way. I knew that you would follow me and just turn it back on, so I had to make sure that I wouldn't wake up.
Again, I'm very sorry Odd. I hope one day you'll forgive me.
Love,
Aelita
Odd read the note over three times. Ulrich and Jeremy were dead too. Hiroki, Yumi, Jeremy, Ulrich, now princess. All of them dead. He looked back at his princess and saw her skin growing whiter with each second.
He saw a glint next to her and looked to see a knife resting in her half open hand. He hesitated for a moment. The words from her note and Ms. Ishiyama kept going around and around in his brain before he finally grabbed the knife out of her hand and placed a gentle kiss on her cold forehead.
"Damn you XANA. You didn't just take Yumi, you took Hiroki, Jeremy, Ulrich, and Aelita… but now you're dead. And I'm going to make sure you never see the real world ever again." Odd said before ripping the handle of the supercomputer off and plunging the knife deep into the wires. The handle of the knife was wood, so he didn't get electrocuted, but he heard something go off from within the machine.
"And now you've taken me too." Odd brought the knife out of the computer and laid down next to Aelita, taking her hand in his before driving the knife into his chest and through his heart.
"G-Good… r-riddance…" Odd managed to utter between coughs that were thick with blood. He felt his head getting light as his grip on Aelita's hand loosened slightly. Another bang went off from inside the computer, then another larger one, and the last thing Odd remembered before he passed out was heat, pain, and a blinding light.
The supercomputer had blown up, XANA was permanently destroyed, but he had taken the lives of six before his demise.
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Okay that was a little tough to write towards the end. Just thinking about the scene of Odd's death made me cry. I can't believe I actually wrote this. Okay, this story is officially at a close. Tell me what you think. Reviews are amazing!