Jeremy, who now had water in his chair, his pants dampened, looked at his monitor with a dropped jaw, a large red shape appearing.

"Guys, I think we have a big problem!" Jeremy said, looking through some files and running a couple of programs. "It looks like X.A.N.A. is using replicas to spawn a Kolossus!"

"That's old news, Jeremy!" Odd yelled, looking up at the beast as I drew closer to them, stepping it's legs out of the waters of the Ice Sector.

"Jeremy, Vehicles?" Ulrich requested, the Kolossus just a few steps from them as they ran.

"I'm having a lot of trouble on my end, a lot of the keys on my keyboard got wet a second ago, I can't type anything." Jeremy said, frantically pushing at random keys as he stood on his chair, unable to stay seated with the rapid water level rise.

The large monster shook the ground with every step, it's pace faster than that of the Warriors, it's speed greatly increased to match X.A.N.A.'s increased strength.

"Guys, what do we do?" William asked as Odd fired a few shots into the Kolossus's eyes, having no effect.

"Well, running won't work forever." Yumi replied, the creature nearly upon them.

Ulrich turned to face the Kolossus, saying, "Then we fight."

With one swift swing of its arm, the Kolossus aimed for the Warriors, clipping Odd, sending the purple cat flying through the air as he devirtualized.

Yumi threw her fan at the beast, it impacted in his arm, incinerating it on impact as though it were paper to fire. Aelita activated her wings, and, upon flight, fired multiple shots at the monster. Her shots had as little effect as Odd and Yumi had earlier.

"Yumi! Watch out!" Aelita yelled from her vantage point, the Kolossus swinging it's arm at the girl as she began to throw her second sword. The impact was more of a slam than a slash, her being crushed and devirtualized on impact.

Two down, three to go.

Odd stepped out of his scanner, water filling the lower half of it after the doors slid open. He was unsure what do to, water already filling a lot of the room, more pouring in every second.

He swam over to the middle of the room and went for the ladder, attempting to go to the lab and find Jeremy, but it was so slick and so much water was pushing through he was unable to get a firm grip. Just as he gave up on his efforts, he noticed another scanner door open, a confused Yumi emerging, unprepared for the wet situation that awaited her.

"Hey, how did the fight go?" Odd asked. If any sarcasm existed at this time, it was in his voice.

"I don't know, I was a bit too focused on the hand slamming into me to see how the others were doing." Yumi replied, matching his earlier expression of sarcasm.

The two floated for a few moments before one finally broke the silence.

"So... What do we do now?" Odd asked, his arms paddling to keep himself from sinking.

"I don't know. I guess we should try to get to Jeremy." Yumi replied, looking around the room and clues as to how they could do that.

"Well, how are we gonna get there?" Odd asked, his body already getting slightly tired from his swimming.

"I have no idea." Yumi replied, her mind wondering over ideas of how they can escape.

"Aelita, head for the tower! William and I can handle this jerk!" Ulrich yelled, his main priority to save the people back on earth, and Yumi for that matter. The tower was all that concerned him now, and he would fight hard to get it deactivated.

Aelita flew off towards the tower which was a fair distance away, Ulrich and William standing next to each other as they eyed down the beast.

"What's the plan?" William asked, hoping Ulrich had a few good ideas.

"We each go for an eye, I'll get the one on its head, you go for the sword. If we hit them both, it's gone." Ulrich explained, proud of his idea.

"Okay, now how am I supposed to get on it's arm?" William asked, the Kolossus preparing for a swing.

"It swings, you jump. Good luck!" Ulrich said, running off from William in a supersprint, beginning to climb the back of the beast.

William waited for the monster to swing at him, a move which he cleverly dodged, jumping onto its hand. He began to run towards its eye as Ulrich reached the one on its head. William slipped as the beast moved it's arm violently, causing him to drop his sword.

In panic, William reached out, but to no avail, his sword hitting the ground with a wicked *Clang* noise.

"Ulrich! I dropped my sword!" William yelled up to his friend, unsure how to deal with this situation.

Ulrich looked down at William, holding both his swords in hand. This brought an idea to his head, quickly throwing the sword from his right hand as he yelled: "Catch!"

William watched as the blade twirled in the air as it traveled the half-span of the Kolossus, reaching his arm out as it neared him. His hand barely caught it as it was passing by, the force behind it much stronger than its graceful fall would have suggested.

"I got it!" William yelled, holding the sword in the air for Ulrich to see.

"Okay, on my mark we kill it!" Ulrich said, raising his sword. "Three!... "Two!... "One!" He yelled, thrusting the sharp blade deep into the monsters face, William also stabbing it with a similar force.

The Kolossus shook violently as it began a screech that would break glass, not by pitch, but by sheer volume. It's weight lost hold as it began to fall, both Warriors still hanging onto it. The impact onto the ground beat their best efforts to run, both boys being devirtualized, leaving a flat lying Kolossus behind.

Aelita stepped into the tower as water began to totally fill the lab, the young blond gasping for air as his mouth was mostly covered. Yumi and Odd had similar issues, their efforts to find Jeremy now just seen as a waste of energy.

Aelita floated to the second floor of the tower, her body moving gracefully as she flipped in the air. When she landed, she placed her hand on the terminal in front of her, causing it to display: "Aelita" "Code: Lyoko". When it finished, Aelita whispered to herself, "Jeremy, please tell my you pre-programmed the return to the past.

A few seconds passed, causing Aelita to begin to think otherwise, until she was hit with the large white sphere, sending them back before anything happened.

The whole gang sat in Jeremy's room, Jeremy sitting in his chair with a laptop in hand.

"Jeremy, how could X.A.N.A. have replicas still? We destroyed all of them when we killed him the first time, right?" Aelita asked, unsure what to make of. X.A.N.A.'s recent growth in strength.

"I'm not sure how he did it, but he still has his replicas, only adding to his strength." Jeremy said, looking at his worried friends. "But don't worry, guys, we've destroyed replicas in the past, so well just do it again."

Odd raised his hand, looking over at Jeremy. "Speaking of tough challenges, I have a math test tomorrow and I don't even know what chapter it's in. Wanna help?"

The room burst into laughter, their bonds constantly growing stronger. It was times like these, the challenges, the trials, these were the times that brought them together, that truly made them a family.

I hope you guys liked this special episode, I put a lot of work into it. Read and review! Oh, and PM any ideas or things you would like to see, thanks!