Author's Note: Again I feel like an idiot for taking so long. I'm glad so many people are reading this and I would really appreciate some feedback.

Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko or any of its characters. I do own any and all OC's and the ":Chaos Reigns" subtitle.

Chapter 6: Ice and Fire

As Drake woke, he managed a smile when he remembered that it was Saturday. His second day of school and he was off.

He slowly stood up and pulled out his, now clean, white clothes. As the other boys, he headed down to the showers.

Afterwards, he headed down to the cafeteria to meet with the others.

"Hey, Drake." Ulrich said from their table, moving over to make room.

"Where are the others?" Drake asked, seeing only Ulrich and Yumi.

"Odd probably slept in. I think that Aelita and Jeremy were working on something, but I'm not sure what." Yumi replied.

"Speak of the Devils." Ulrich said after a while, nodding towards the door as all three of the others walked in.

"We were wondering where you guys were!" Yumi laughed as the three sat down.

"It was so cold out that I swore it was still night time!" Odd said.

"I know, it was freezing outside this morning." Yumi said. "How cold is it, Jeremy?"

Jeremy pulled out his laptop and after a minute or so he found the page that he was looking for.

"Wow! It's only 56 degrees out!" Jeremy said. "It's only October, it shouldn't be this cold!"

"Well, you never know with the world." Drake muttered. "On another note... what were you two working on that was so important?"

"You're going to like this Drake." Aelita said with a smile. "We found your programming codes... and we put them on Jeremy's computer. So next time we go to the factory we can give you an update!"

"I don't know what to say." Drake said "You have given me my life back, and an actual life!"

The others laughed at his joke, not noticing the ice forming on the windows.

As the six began to leave, Odd went ahead to open the door. As he grabbed the metal handle, he jerked his hand back in shock.

"Holy crap!" Odd yelled. "That thing is freezing!"

As Odd tried to warm up his hand, Drake tried the door next. He too felt the cold, but braced through to open it.

"Oh my god!" Yumi said in shock. "How is it this cold out!"

The others all felt it too. Jeremy, teeth chattering, opened his laptop to check the temperature, but was surprised to see a red exclamation mark on the screen.

"It's Xana! I don't know how but he did this!" Jeremy exclaimed. "It was so cold that there was ice formed around my laptop's speaker."

"How fast is the temperature dropping, Jeremy?" Drake asked, almost unfazed by the cold.

"It's 15 degrees and dropping about a degree a minute! We need to stop this before everyone in Kadic freezes to death!" Jeremy shouted above the now raging winds.

"How long will that take?" Ulrich asked as the group ran towards the sewer entrance.

"About an hour, maybe less!" Drake shouted as they descended into the sewers. "At minus fifteen degrees and a wind chill like this, you'll get frostbite in about a few minutes."

When they finally reached the factory, most of the group were shivering.

12 Degrees

As Jeremy was finally in the computer room and the others ready for the scanners, they started the process. Soon all were on Lyoko, Jeremy left in the freezing cold.

"Alright guys, the tower is directly west of your position." Jeremy said through shaky teeth.

"Jeremy, we're in the ice sector. Do you think that has anything to do with this?" Aelita asked as the five raced towards the tower on their vehicles.

"I hope not, Aelita... but it's the only explanation for it." Jeremy replied, trying hard to think of how Xana could do something like this.

7 Degrees

As they approached the tower, Drake spotted a single figure.

"It's Lucifer! This is my fight!" Drake shouted down as the others gave a nod and he shot forward.

When Drake was close enough see to his twin, he dropped from his glider and drew his staff. He pointed it straight at Lucifer waiting for him to act.

The boy was clad in black armor, similar to Drake's white armor , but he wore a hood, not a cape like Drake. He was leaning on his sword, as if it was a post.

"You've caught me brother..." The Demon said and held up his hands as the rest of the gang came up to the two. "...Yet you haven't. You can see me yet you are blind. Care to elaborate for your friends?"

"It's a trap!" Drake warned as his friends backed slowly away. "What are you planning?"

"Oh, not much. I just sent an invitation to a few of my friends!" Lucifer said with a cackling mad laugh.

Drake stared in shock as four other figures stepped slowly from behind the tower. All were clad in armor and wore hoods, just like Lucifer, but each one's armor was a different color, each matching one of the warrior's colors. They lined up opposite of their match and each stared at their counterpart.

Opposite to Aelita was another girl in pink, holding an energy sphere in her hands.

To Ulrich was a boy in yellow, wielding a jagged sword that pulsed with electricity.

To Odd was a boy in purple who was hefting a mace on his shoulder.

To Yumi was a girl in dark red holding a fiery whip that trailed around her.

And in the middle of each line of five were Drake and Lucifer, the latter of which was smiling an evil grin.

"My master has finally accomplished his goal!" Lucifer yelled over to Drake. "He has cloned his greatest enemies! How's about we test the old saying, 'The original is always the better', eh, brother!" At that, Lucifer pointed with the tip of his sword at Drake and the others. "Destroy them!" He shouted.

At that, the two lines charged towards each other, and clashed in a flurry of steel, fire, and hatred.

As Drake and Lucifer met, the latter swung his sword, which Drake ducked under. The Sentinel hit The Demon in the arm and disarmed him, kicking the sword aside. Lucifer scowled and punched at his brother, but Drake grabbed his arm, forced him to bend forward, then rolled over his back and hit him clean in the face with the end of his staff.

As Drake looked over at the chaos around him, everthing seemed to go in slow motion. He saw Ulrich clash swords with his counterpart, Aelita dodging and throwing multiple energy fields, Odd ducking under a mace swing, and Yumi deflecting her opponent's whip with her fans. Then suddenly, the scene changed to something horrific. He saw Ulrich being spun and stabbed in the back, Odd being crushed by his enemy's mace, Yumi being split in two by her opposite's whip, and finally, Aelita fell with a thud from an energy field to the chest. When she hit the ground, she looked at Drake and shed a tear as she was devirtualized.

Drake stood solemnly as the others surrounded him and Lucifer stood.

"The almighty Guardian of Light, surrounded and weak!" Lucifer laughed in a crazy man's voice.

-3 degrees

"Drake!" Jeremy shouted as the others joined him at the computer, watching the whole scene.

"Jeremy! Can't you do something! They'll throw him into the digital sea!" Aelita screamed, almost crying.

Drake merely stood, showing no fear in the face of death.

"I will join Franz in eternal virtualization, and I will have no regrets!" Drake shouted at Lucifer. "You are a coward! The true darkness would not hide behind pawns like these! Then again, that's exactly what Xana does isn't it! Your maker is weak, and therefor you, all of you, are weak as well!"

"Wait! Aelita." Jeremy said quietly as he looked at Aelita with a smirk on his face and she almost smiled when she realized what he meant.

"Do it Jeremy." She whispered as Jeremy began typing frantically on the keyboard.

"Beat him down, but don't kill him. We'll throw him into the digital sea, afterwards." Lucifer said as the others readied their weapons.

"Done!" Jeremy exclaimed as he punched the enter button.

Drake felt a surge of energy flow through him as he began to glow white before Xana's pawns.

"Fight Drake, fight! You can take them now!" Aelita shouted over the microphone.

Drake took a deep breath and readied his staff as the first clone came at him.

This one was Yumi's clone. As she charged, Drake nimbly ducked under a whip crack, and did a horizontal flip over her head, cutting her with his staff's energy blade. He landed softly on his knee and stood as Ulrich's copy came at him. He ducked under a swing from his sword, then grabbed his arm, turning it so that the sword deflected a swing from Odd's counterpart. Drake then turned the sword and stabbed Ulrich's clone in the back.

Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd all let out a cheer as they watched from the computer screen. Aelita and Jeremy both let out sighs simultaneously.

As Drake turned, he quickly blocked a downward swing from Odd's clone's mace. Drake spun his staff in just the right way to knock the mace from the brute's hand. The Sentinel then blasted the clone to pixels with a charged energy burst.

The rest of the gang cheered again as they saw Aelita's clone approach Drake.

Drake readied himself as Aelita's clone charged two energy spheres. Drake charged the girl as she let fly the two spheres. Drake saw this and front flipped just over the two orbs, continuing to kick the girl square in the chest with both feet as he came out of the flip, sending her flying into the digital sea.

The rest of the gang did not cheer this time, for they knew who was next; Lucifer.

As Drake turned, he saw The Demon fuming in rage at his companions' failure. The black clad Prince of Darkness charged at Drake, wielding only his fists.

Drake dropped his staff and met the Demon in a one-on-one fight. As Lucifer punched at Drake, the Sentinel grabbed his arm and ducked under, flipping him over. The Demon would not be done in so easily though, and rolled out of the flip and back to his feet as he hit the ground. As the Demon charged him again, Drake ran forwards as well, and the two met again. As Drake shot out a kick, Lucifer grabbed his foot and spun his brother, who merely elbowed him in the face as he came back around. As the black clad boy stumbled backwards from the hit, he swore as he felt himself weakening.

"You will pay, Brother!" Lucifer howled in rage. "Damn you!"

The Demon charged Drake a final time, jumping into the air, attempting to land on his twin. Drake quickly dropped to his back and, as his brother came down at him, he met his opponent with his feet and sent his brother flying over him and into the side of the tower.

At the sight of this, his friends gave out a loud cheer, despite the nearness of a frozen death.

As Drake stood, again, he picked up his staff and walked towards Lucifer, who was crippled at the bottom of the tower.

"You are far from a worthy opponent." Drake said. "You have nothing worth fighting for other than hate, and that is why you have failed this day."

At that, Drake shot an obliterating pulse of energy at his foe, his now and forever enemy. As the Demon ripped apart, pixel by pixel, Drake thought to himself, he knew that this was merely one fight of many, and that other times he may not be as lucky. He knew that his friends needed help, and he was going to do whatever it was necessary to train them to fight Xana, before his inevitable death.

"Drake! You've done it! That was amazing!" Jeremy said in disbelief as the others cheered. "You know... I want to try something. Step inside the tower, real quick!"

"Jeremy, what are you doing?" Aelita asked Jeremy.

"Aelita, did you not see what just happened?" Jeremy replied. "And he was created by your father! Maybe he can deactivate towers too!"

As Drake entered the tower he walked to the center of the platform, and slowly began to float upwards.

"See?" Jeremy exclaimed as Aelita just smiled.

As Drake softly touched down on the platform, he walked to the center where a small panel awaited.

-18 degrees

"Hurry Drake." Aelita whispered as she felt herself numbing up.

As Drake laid a hand on the panel, it lit up with the words...

Sentinel

Code:

Lyoko

As Drake looked around him, he saw the glowing panels begin to fall, and he knew that he had just saved a city.

"Return to the past, Now!" Jeremy exclaimed as he pushed the enter button, glad to be out of the cold.

As Drake woke up, he half expected to see the scanner room ceiling, but instead was greeted by the painted ceilings if his room at Kadic.

As he headed down to the cafeteria, yet again, he ran into Jeremy on his way, and the two began to talk.

"Did you ever find out how Xana was able to change the temperature?" Drake asked.

"Well, you were on the ice sector, right? So I think that Xana was able to hack into our scanners and somehow released the essence of the Ice sector into the real world. I still have no idea exactly how, but I'm willing to bet that it's close to that." Jeremy replied

"And about our clones?" Drake asked.

"I wish I knew. If I did I could hack and destroy them, but, I just have no idea." Jeremy said, sighing as Drake laid a hand on his shoulder.

"I will help you. I will train the others to fight. You will leave a legacy known by none, but your lives will have been spent saving others, and for that I can't thank you enough." Drake said, afterwards thinking to himself, "For doing my job." The two finally reached the cafeteria after talking about a few other things.

"There they are." Ulrich said, pointing to the two as Aelita and Odd spun in their chairs to see the two walk in and sit down.

"What, no breakfast?" Odd asked as he wolfed down his own.

"I'm not hungry, today." Drake said, waving his hand in denial as Ulrich offered some of his food.

"You should be, after that amazing fight, well, today." Yumi laughed, pointing to him with her fork.

"That was amazing, dude!" Odd said after he swallowed most of his food. "You fought off six guys at once that we couldn't take one-on-one!"

"Yes, and I am going to teach you." Drake said, still grim as ever. "In fact, Jeremy, I think it's high time for an Upgrade."