Yay! Another action chapter!

Thanks for all of the reviews! I'm glad that people like my story so much. I can't wait to see what you guys think of this chapter.

Oh, I finally worked out vaguely how I'm going to end it. It'll be a big twist, that's for sure. You won't see it coming.

Anyway, go and read the chapter now. I just have to do the legal stuff… Oh, I've switched to normal dividers, rather than dashes. Don't ask why, because I don't know.

Disclaimer: I have run out of fun ways to say that I don't own Code Lyoko, so I'll just tell you. I don't own Code Lyoko!

Claimer: I own Kirsten, all of the gang's kids, and any other kids I decide to feature in this story.

Chapter 13 – Fireblast

Dan's voice echoed in the air around them. "You should be able to see the tower now."

They stopped and saw the cylinder in front of them, glowing an ominous red. Amy looked around and shook her head. John came up to her with a confused expression and asked "What's wrong?"

She looked around again. "It's…it's too ea–mmph!" The last word was muffled as John covered her mouth. He sighed. "Don't say it. Every time somebody says it–" He was cut off by a loud boom and a laser wall just missed him. He quickly extended his bo as the others readied their weapons. He shot a look at Amy.

"Toldja!"

He ran at the nearby megatank and blocked another shot. Unfortunately, the wall kept pushing at him, and he was forced to hold his bo steady and keep the force from pushing him back. He suddenly jumped to the side and the wall passed him, quickly disappearing. He ran up to the tank and stood right in front of it. It opened again and he immediately bashed the XANA symbol, causing it to explode.

There were now two megatanks and four tarantulas in the area. Eric had claimed one of the tarantulas, and was nimbly dodging lasers. He threw five shurikens, and waited a moment for the tarantula to explode. Unfortunately, it didn't. He had missed. He cursed for a moment before smiling and closing his eyes. His hands briefly glowed yellow and the shurikens turned around in the air. The tarantula exploded and he caught theshurikens.

Amy somehow ended up fighting two tarantulas at once. She was having a difficult time dodging and blocking laser shots. She finally managed to flip up on top of a tarantula and slice open its head. It blew up and the fragments blinked for a moment before fading away. She turned around and was hit in the chest with a laser. She fell back and saw her chest sparking. Shaking her head, she stood back up, dodged another laser, and sent a jet of water at it. Her aim was perfect, and she destroyed her other foe. She looked around to see that there were only two megatanks and two tarantulas left.

John was fighting another megatank. Every time he got close enough to hit it, it would fire and he'd have to dodge. He finally was about to destroy it when it fired at point blank range. He was thrown back.

"John! You only have twenty life points left! Amy, you're at sixty, everybody else is at seventy!"

John glared at his enemy. "Fine…if that's how you want to play…" His eyes and hands flashed green, and the ground where the megatank sat tilted. It rolled off the edge and was gone. He smiled.

"Hah!"

He was then hit from behind by the remaining megatank and devirtualized. Amy glared at the offending megatank and shot a blast of water, pushing it off the edge.

Nina was playing with another tarantula. She was shooting arrows and beams of light like crazy, but she just couldn't hit it. She finally hit its head, but missed the symbol.

"Good, but you've only damaged it!"

She ground her teeth. "It's not as easy as it looks, bro. Wanna switch places?" She jumped up as the tarantula shot again, and managed to hit the symbol. She turned around to see the laser she dodged hit Eric, devirtualizing him.

Amy was about to go help Rena with the last megatank when two rolled up behind her.

"Amy! You have two megatanks behind you!" Dan yelled. She turned around and gasped as both shots hit her simultaneously. Now Rena and Ninawere the only ones left. She managed to slice the symbol on the megatank she was battling. She turned around and smiled, then noticed the two new megatanks blocking the tower entrance. Nina was trying to sneak up from behind. The tanks spotted her and rolled over there. Nina shot away like a beam of light, and the tanks followed her. Suddenly, she found herself surrounded by no less than ten megatanks!

Rena ran over to her, and found herself trapped as well. "Nina! Run!" She turned back to the megatanks and started shooting fireballs to keep their attention off Nina. It worked for the moment.

Five minutes later, Rena was down to her last ten life points, and there were still eight megatanks left, all of which were now blocking the tower completely. Nina was trying to hit them from behind with well-placed arrows, butkept missing the symbols. She tried to sneak up behind a megatank to get closer as Rena glared at XANA's monsters.

How can I defeat them?

She looked at her hand and noticed that she was still glowing red. It felt like pure fire was coursing through her veins.

Maybe…

All eight megatanks aimed at her and began to charge.

She took a deep breath.

She threw her head back and let out an unearthly scream. Her voice sounded throughout the forest region. Her body glowed brighter and brighter, until Nina couldn't bear to look at her. Then she yelled a single word.

"NOVA!"

This word was followed bya huge explosion which tore through the entire region. The force of it threw Nina, who had been trying to sneak into the tower, to the edge of the platform. The explosion was followed by a blast of fire, which ripped the megatanks apart like tissue paper, then burnt the pieces to a crisp. The land and trees of the entire forest region were stripped of their textures and became just wireframes floating above the void.

Her body lost its texture as well, and the resulting wireframe blinked a few times before disappearing.

Nina stared at thewhite lines under her, until they were filled in with green again. She shook her head and ran for the tower.

Dan was trying to run down to the scanner room, but Eric was holding him back, yelling "Wait!"

He finally calmed down. He turned back to Eric. "What? I need to see if she's okay!"

"John already went down. You know…you care about her more than a normal friend would…" He grinned as Dan rolled his eyes.

"Cut it out!"

"Fine. Nina should have deactivated the tower by now, so you should program the return to the past."

He nodded, muttering "fine," as he walked back to the console.

Rena fell out of the scanner, groaning. John caught her, smiling.

"Sis? How do you feel?"

Rena groaned again. "Like I got run over by a steamroller and blown up by a nuke at the same time."

"Good, you're okay."

She found the energy to laugh with him as they were consumed by a blinding white light.

Okay, that was chapter 13! Don't forget to review!

I'm planning on having…um…five or six more XANA attacks before the grand finale. If anybody has any suggestions for what happens between attacks, I'm open to them. I can't guarantee that I'll use any of them though, since I have an idea of what I want to happen.

Once again, please review! Or I'll update chapter 14 in April! Hmm…speaking of April…I might write an April Fools oneshot…if I ever stop being lazy and start writing more.

I have horrible writer's block right now, but I've already written the next few chapters. By the time I upload them all, I'll probably have some inspiration and there won't be a huge updating slump.