Disclaimer: I do not own Code: Lyoko, Danny Phantom, or Alan Hopper. Alan is actually from RaveMasterShinobi's fanfic Birth of AIDA. If you haven't read it yet you should. And if you have, sorry about the changes that I had to make in order to fit him into the series.

A/N: Alright, we're finally at chapter nine. I know that some of you are wondering about the disclaimer. Well, RMS decided that after what happened in the chapter five, the group needed some help. He offered me the ability to use Alan in this series, and after the last chapter I decided that the time was right to take him up on that offer. So if you ever read any of his stories, please thank him in a review. Just like I need to power my Review Cannon, he needs to power up his Pwnage Cannon. But on another note, a friend of mine is offering to put up 3D images from the Damonic Rapture series. When she has managed to create some, I'll alert all of you and put a link to them on my profile page. Now, let's get to story related news. I know that a lot of you were shocked by Damon's decision in the last chapter. Or should I say Ymir now. Well, in that week that was left unwritten, he got endlessly griped at for almost killing Erethyr. As if he didn't feel bad enough for losing his temper in that battle! It was during that week that he remembered that Code: Earth hadn't been restored so that he could be a human instead of an AI. He felt really betrayed by that because there was talk about using it on Sahra. That, and Erethyr struck some soft spots during their fight; so, Damon decided that he had had enough. He joined up with GEVI in order to become stronger, and to get some payback. Now that the explanation is out of the way, onto the chapter! Please R&R, or I will possess you with polymorphic specters and force you to break every mirror in sight.

"Man, I still can't believe that Damon turned his back on us and reclaimed his old name," Odd declared exasperatedly.

"Much less that he recreated Niffleheim," Aelita sighed, "And knowing him, he probably made it exactly like the old one."

"But you do have to admit, the old one was a very beautiful sector. It was the first sector that we encountered where every creature had its own AI," Ulrich commented.

"He may do good work on sector creation, but I'm gonna piss him off," Xavier declared.

"How are you going to do that," Jeremy inquired.

"Here's a better question: WHY are you going to do that," Erethyr added, "Even if all of you have, I'm not going to give up on him like that. I think that he is doing this as some sort of greater plan."

"You never know with Damon. After all, even without his memories intact, he had visions of you guys racing through his mind when he saw you…or a facsimile of you," Sahra commented.

"How do you-" Cassandra asked before she was cut off.

"He hesitated for a moment when he was going up against training dummies of all of you, save for Erethyr. You guys showed up on Lyoko before he could get to that one," Sahra reminisced.

"That actually explains why he wasn't surprised by the polarity attack getting rid of his ice armor," Jeremy declared.

"Because he had already experienced it," Aelita finished.

"Exactly, now Xavier, could you tell them how you're going to piss Damon, I mean Ymir, off. The suspense is killing me," Sahra proclaimed.

"Alright, tonight I'm going to materialize Sahra," Xavier stated.

"That is like poring salt over fresh wounds," Danny sighed, "I think that if you did that, he would try to kill one of you."

"Try as he may, as long as we're in our Lyoko forms we shouldn't die," Cid declared.

"We may need some back-up though," Ulrich proclaimed, "He does know all of us inside and out."

"I've already been working on that," Aelita responded.

"Now it's catchphrase time," Cid groaned, "What do you mean?"

"That is a fucking lame catchphrase; you do know that, right," Sam inquired.

"Yeah, but with how many times we've said it in our adventures, it kinda stuck as a catchphrase," Cid replied.

"How have you been working on the back-up problem without any of us knowing, Aelita," Jeremy inquired. He had no clue as to how this had slipped his notice.

"I've been calling my twin brother to try to get him to help us out. I figured that with his experience in playing on The World, he would probably be our best bet to help our cause," Aelita declared.

"You have a twin brother," Odd inquired, sounding both surprised and confused at the same time.

"Yes, his name is Alan Hopper, and I couldn't get him to agree to come here until he found out that there was a connection to The World in Amity Park," Aelita explained.

"When is he going to get here," Ulrich implored.

"HEY SIS," somebody from down the street shouted, running up to the group.

"In about twenty seconds," Aelita responded, waving to the boy running towards them. Alan had short spiky black hair with two long locks covering his ears and bright green eyes, just like Aelita's, he was wearing a red vest over a button-up black t-shirt; black jeans with red stripes going up the sides; and black tennis shoes with a flame design coming from the soles. "Hey, bro," Aelita proclaimed ecstatically as she hugged her brother.

"Hey, sis; long time no see! So these are the friends that you fight to save the world with," Alan inquired, blushing slightly when his gaze turned to Erethyr.

"Yes, but we need to get you scanned into the super computer fast. I have a nagging feeling that something big is going to happen soon," Aelita declared.

"About the scanners…thanks for uploading the blueprints to me. I might just be able to improve on them," Alan proclaimed as they ran back to Nysis Headquarters.

"Less talk, more run," Cid shouted, he also had a nagging feeling that something big was going to happen very soon. He started to change his shape when Xavier stopped him.

"Remember your note to yourself," Xavier stated. Cid stopped his form change after remembering what he had said just yesterday.

Nysis Headquarters, Computer Lab
"Plugging in scanner," Xavier thought out loud before turning to the computer console and plugging in his Zune.

"Bypassing firewall," Sahra announced, "and inputting the encryption keys."

"Why so much extra security," Alan inquired as he stepped onto the scanner.

"So that Damon can't come back and attack us in our sleep," Cid replied.

"Wasn't Damon the one that went berserk," Alan implored.

"Yeah, he's now one of the enemies," Erethyr scowled.

"Oh, sorry. That must be a very touchy subject right now," Alan apologized as the ring for the scanner rose above his head.

"I'm scanning you in now, Alan," Xavier announced, "And after you're done there's somebody I'd like for all of you to meet in flesh and blood for the first time.

"We can't wait," Sam declared.

"Am I missing anything," Tucker inquired, running down the stairs.

"No, in fact it has just started," Cid stated.

"We'll just activate your Nysis form now, okay Alan," Xavier stated.

"Sure, go on ahead," Alan declared.

"How come he can talk in the scanners and we can't," Ulrich asked.

"He got really sick as a kid, the disease was incurable. My dad virtualized him and ran an anti-virus program through him, thus curing him," Aelita explained, "Since then he has been at least partly data."

"So, in other words, we should be expecting a fancy outfit out of him," Odd inquired, "Why do all the new guys have all the luck?!"

"So how do I look," Alan inquired as the scanner ring dropped down to his feet. He was wearing a black tank-top with no midriff and a cuff that covered his neck, two red belts across his stomach, black fingerless gloves that reached past his elbows with a red flame design extending towards the hands, black pants with alternating red and black belts on the thighs, two black daggers with a red edge and half of a golden octagon past the grip (A/N: they look like they would fit snuggly on his forearms and wouldn't constrict movement), and black boots with red stripes going down from the cuffs to the soles and diagonally across his ankles.

"Why don't you just take a look for yourself," Danny proclaimed, obviously flabbergasted. Alan looked in the mirror that Danny was indicating.

"DAMN! I look exactly like my character does in The World," Alan exclaimed.

"That must mean that that's how you envision yourself in your subconscious," Jeremy commented, impressed by Alan's outfit.

"AWESOME! It's an exact copy right down to the daggers," Alan exclaimed, ecstatic that he could look like he did online whenever he needed to.

"Alright, I'm uploading you now Sahra," Xavier proclaimed, "I've already got things set up with Chief Nerull. He's setting up the ritual as we speak."

"See you on the other side of this screen," Sahra proclaimed happily as she was uploaded onto Nysis.

"They have a ritual to go to Earth," Danny inquired incredulously.

"It's their translation of the Code: Earth program," Xavier explained, "I told you that I would restore it when we needed it again."

"You're about eight months too late for that," Erethyr huffed.

"Hey Jeremy, I bet you twenty dollars that something's going to go wrong and Xavier's going to be sucking his thumb," Sam declared.

"You're on," Jeremy replied smugly. The rest of the room just groaned.

"Hey, how do I go back to my street clothes," Alan inquired.

"Just think it and it will happen," Aelita replied.

"Thanks, sis," Alan responded as he did what he was told. He pixilated before expanding; he then recompressed into his Earth form. "That made me feel all tingly inside, like when dad cured me of that virus."

"So, how do you think that you could improve the scanners," Jeremy inquired.

"Yeah, I looked at Damon's blueprints for this model, but I couldn't understand anything besides the title," Tucker admitted.

"Really, they seemed really easy to understand to me. Then again, I did design the next model for The World headsets," Alan stated, "The scanners work in a very similar way to the headsets. All I'm going to have to do is adjust them to send the bodies along a different wavelength, and we'd be on Nysis just like that."

"So you're saying that it's as easy as just setting them on the same frequency as the scanners," Xavier inquired.

"Well, it's a little bit more complex than that, but you're pretty much right," Alan responded.

"How long is it going to take you," Ulrich implored.

"A couple of weeks at the very least, and that's only if I use the headset that I designed," Alan replied.

"That's fucking sweet," Odd proclaimed.

"Hmmm, I'm going to have to see your designs," Xavier declared, "Oh, I just got a message from Chief Nerull…okay, he's ready to finish the final chant to materialize Sahra!"

"Start the procedure; I can't wait to see what she looks like here on Earth," Cassandra shrieked with excitement.

"You mean how she used to look, or how she's going to look now," Sam inquired.

"Now, of course," Cassandra replied.

"Inputting final code sequence, now," Xavier declared as he hit the enter key and turned around. The scanner ring came to life and started floating up, leaving a green wall under it. There was a bright flash of light that came from the top of the scanner before the ring floated back down, revealing Sahra.

"So how do I look," Sahra inquired. There was an eerie silence while all the boys were blushing, especially Xavier and Alan. "What's wrong?"

"Umm, I don't know how to put this…why don't you just look in the mirror," Xavier stammered. All the girls in the room were speechless, until Sahra looked in the mirror.

"XAVIER YOU FUCKING PERVERT! WHY DIDN'T YOU MATERIALIZE ME WITH ANY CLOTHES ON," Sahra shouted as she ducked down to cover herself up.

"HAVE SOME DECENCY XAVIER! JUST BECAUSE YOU LIKE HER, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU CAN MATERIALIZE HER BUCK NAKED," Sam shouted.

"Xavier, I'd hurry up and get her some clothes if I were you," Cassandra stated coldly as she helped Sahra up to the girl's room.

"I don't understand, this has never happened before," Xavier proclaimed as he checked over the figures again. The scanner came to life again, leaving most of the teens confused.

"This can't be good," Cid declared. There was a bright light as the scanner ring floated back down, revealing Sahra's clothes lying on the floor. "Or, it could be something that could save your ass."

"I'll take these up to Sahra," Aelita stated, leveling a glare at Xavier that caused him to shrink in fear. Aelita gathered up Sahra's clothes and took them upstairs.

"Well, that's really embarrassing," Alan managed to say after a few minutes.

"I don't think that you are ever going to hear the end of this one," Danny proclaimed.

"I have never seen Aelita glare at anybody until this moment," Ulrich commented, sounding fairly impressed with a touch of fear in his voice.

"I don't think that Xavier has either; I mean look at him," Odd declared. Xavier was in the fetal position, sucking his thumb and rocking back and forth. "I think that he's going to be scarred for life!" Jeremy handed a twenty over to Sam.

"I can't believe that you actually took a bet out on this one," Tucker groaned.

"I can't believe that she actually won," Cid stated, still in disbelief at what had just transpired, "How did you know that something like this was going to happen?"

"Something is always lost in translation," Sam replied, "And Xavier seemed like the type to overreact when something went wrong. I had no idea that his reaction would actually be justifiable." Sam took a camera out of her backpack and took an embarrassing photo of Xavier.

"Why did you do that," Jeremy inquired.

"Blackmail," Danny and Tucker replied together, remembering the purple-back gorilla incident.

"Does your evil know no bounds," Odd implored.

"Not when it comes to horribly embarrassing photos," Sam replied.

"Remind me to never get into a compromising situation around her," Odd whispered to Ulrich.

"Agreed," Ulrich responded. A few minutes later, Aelita, Cassandra, and Sahra came down the stairs, all of them giving death glares to Xavier. Xavier could feel their glares and started hugging himself while rocking back and forth more quickly.

"He been like this the entire time," Aelita inquired.

"Without pausing, even after Sam took a picture of him," Odd replied.

"Good," Cassandra stated.

"Okay, now how do I look…now that I have clothes on," Sahra stated, aiming that last comment at Xavier. Sahra had her waist-length silver hair tied into a ponytail with her sea green eyes shining brightly. She was wearing a white t-shirt with 'Baby Girl' emblazoned on her chest in sliver letters, low-cut white capris, and blue sandals with a silver trim.

"Not bad at all," Odd whistled, "If I weren't going out with Cassandra, I'd ask you out in a heartbeat."

"Odd," Cassandra groaned, leveling a death glare at Odd. He had to desperately resist the urge to go into the same position that Xavier was in because Sam still had her camera out.

"Thanks Odd," Sahra grinned, "I just didn't want anybody to see me naked, until I was ready. Not like I had a choice in the matter." Sahra leveled another death glare at Xavier, who started to break down in tears.

"Okay, I have to get that picture," Sam declared as she took another photo.

"Xavier definitely isn't going to live this one down," Odd groaned.

"Yeah, if he says the wrong thing, that one will be going in the yearbook," Danny commented, "She tried that one on us before."

"Well, when's the next attack supposed to be? Does anybody know," Alan inquired, wanting to get a piece of action. The super computer went off, signaling an attack.

"Right about now," Jeremy stated getting all serious. Danny's ghost sense also went off.

"This really can't be good," Danny groaned.

"It should be…right by the fountain in the park," Jeremy stated.

"I have a feeling that that's where the ghost is going to be too," Danny groaned. The group set off towards the park, changing into their various battle forms on the way. With the exception of Tucker, he got left behind while Sahra dragged him out of the computer lab. Xavier recovered from the shock along the way while Tucker tried to figure out how to run the super computer better.

Amity Park…Park…(I really need to find a better name for this place)
A ghost encased in high-tech armor with glowing green eyes and a mane of green fire going down his neck was terrorizing the park. "Ghost child, come out so that I can hunt you down!"

"You know Skulker," Danny proclaimed as he floated out of the ground with the Nysis warriors running up to the scene, "You really need to learn how to make more tempting offers."

"Then how about this," a voice declared as three polymorphic specters came out of nearby power cables, "If you and your friends don't bow down before GEVI, we're going to kill all of these people!" The three polymorphic specters coalesced into Fenris, a very large wolf and old foe to the Nysis group, and two frost giants.

"That would be a very good threat," Cid declared, "But do you honestly think that you can follow through?!"

"Of course," Fenris smirked.

"Who are you," Skulker demanded.

"You know the old adage 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend,'" Fenris responded.

"Yes, of course," Skulker declared.

"Well, these children are both of our enemies," Fenris stated.

"Heh, then for the time being, we would be allies," Skulker proclaimed as he shot at Danny with an energy cannon.

"Shit, this is really bad," Danny shouted as he dodged Skulker's attacks. The frost giants were charging towards the rest of the group. Fenris was standing back to marvel at the chaos that would ensue when his enemies realized one very important thing about their reborn foes.

"Danny," Sam cried out as she through shurikens at Skulker. Skulker merely laughed at her attempts and went intangible, all the while firing at Danny. "Why can't I hit him?!"

"Because you are not strong enough," Skulker laughed. He aimed a second energy cannon at Sam and proceeded to fire at her. Sam had to use her super sprint to dodge his attacks but couldn't make any further moves of her own. Meanwhile, the rest of the group was having troubles of their own.

"Why are our attacks not affecting these guys! They should be weak against our energy attacks, but they're having no effect," Xavier shouted as he fired energy arrow after energy arrow into the frost giants.

"So you've noticed the upgrade have you," Fenris smirked, "They are not the frost giants that you knew before; they are the elite!" Xavier activated his power in an attempt to figure out what was so different about these guys, but he couldn't no matter how hard he tried. They looked the exact same as the old ones did.

"Polarity," Aelita and Jeremy shouted as the fired their team attack at their new and improved foes, but to no avail. The frost giants just laughed at their attacks and shrugged them off. The frost giants in turn swiped their spike-laden clubs at the two teens. Jeremy and Aelita barely dodged their attacks, but were obviously getting exhausted from the grueling battle.

"How about you try this one for size," Erethyr shouted as she activated her rage power. The familiar angry pink aura surrounded her as her scimitars turned into falchions. As she did this, an upside-down pentagram became emblazoned onto her left shoulder. Odd fired a few laser arrows at the nearest of the two frost giants, but only succeeded at annoying his frosty foe.

"Hey, didn't Damon used to have that symbol on his outfit when he had a rage power," Odd inquired.

"I think it means that I might finally be gaining control over this new power," Erethyr responded as she fired an angry pink energy arc at the frost giant that Odd had been firing upon. Her attack succeeded in making a gash on her opponent's chest but did no other visible damage. Cassandra charged up a fireball before throwing it at the fresh wound, creating a melted crater in the creature's chest. The frost giant reeled from her fiery attack.

"It looks like he couldn't upgrade them enough to be completely unaffected by fireballs," Cassandra cheered as she winced in pain.

"Maybe so, little girl, but you attack didn't completely destroy it. And it also looks like your best weapon against them also harms you," Fenris sneered.

"Looks like you guys could use a little help," Donjuan called as he jumped into fray in his battle form, "Why don't I take on Fido over there while you guys just focus on destroying those two."

"Way easier said than done," Cid shouted as he pumped the other frost giant full of lead. His bullets became embedded in the ice, making tiny hairline fractures wherever he hit. The frost giant still came charging at Cid as though he weren't doing anything at all, however. Xavier started firing at the points that Cid had hit, making the bullets go in deeper and the cracks bigger. The frost giant started showing some signs of pain at this new tactic.

"Aelita! Do you think that you and Jeremy can make very small polarity fields and fire them into the bullet holes," Xavier shouted. Aelita and Jeremy nodded as they followed through with Xavier's advice. The frost giant roared with pain as small spheres started to disappear within it. "Ulrich! Use your new attack!" Ulrich obliged and started swinging his yellow energy arcs at the frost giant. Pieces of its hide fell away, revealing a second layer of ice underneath.

"Damon, you clever bastard," Cid sighed. Xavier fired his energy arrows into the second layer of skin to great affect. The frost giant roared in pain as it clutched these wounds, unable to figure out why these attacks were suddenly able to harm it.

"I actually have to agree with you, Cid. He didn't' recreate them, he just added a second skin to make it more resilient to energy attacks. Take away that armor, and it's still the same frost giant that we used to go up against. Damon is a very clever bastard, but not clever enough," Xavier proclaimed. Jeremy and Aelita fired a polarity field into this new opening, obliterating the frost giant in a final swoop.

Donjuan and Fenris were circling each other; both of them were trying to bait the other into making the first fatal move. Donjuan decided to make the first move by lashing his tentacles out at Fenris. Fenris dodged both of them before unleashing his most powerful move. Fenris howled at Donjuan, the shockwaves of which being so powerful that Donjuan was thrown into the remaining frost giant. The frost giant stumbled and swung the arm with a club in it in an attempt to regain its balance. In one of the random swings to stabilize itself, on of the spikes pierced Cid in the chest.

"Uhn," Cid grunted as he was impaled. He dropped his revolvers and attempted to unsheathe his sword, but his diminishing strength wouldn't let him do even that much. The frost giant, having regained his balance, pulled his weapon out of Cid. Cid collapsed to the ground holding his chest with his blood spilling onto the ground. The fighting stopped as Cid became wireframe, and proceeded to come apart just like he would if he were getting devirtualized. He cried out in one last gasp of pain as he vanished, never to be seen again. The only things that remained to tell that he had once existed were his revolvers, his gun belt, and his sword.

"Is he…dead," Cassandra asked hesitantly, her voice wavering.

"I don't know," Jeremy replied somberly.

"YOU MOTHER FUCKER," Erethyr shrieked, tears streaming from her eyes. Her form changed once again. Her hair flew back into sharp points, her eyes turned blood red as her aura became almost black, the symbol on her shoulder also became black with some smoke coming from it, and her falchions merged into a single wicked looking falchion. She started blindly hacking away at the frost giant, taking out huge chunks of ice with every swipe.

"Looks like your lady friend over there is pissed off," Skulker proclaimed, pointing towards Erethyr. Danny and Sam both looked towards their friend's fight for the first time and noticed that something was missing, but they just couldn't place what.

"Oh no," Sam gasped when she saw the pool of fresh blood with Cid's weapons lying beside them.

"This can't be happening," Danny gasped, seeing just how pissed off Erethyr was. He hadn't been able to feel the strong aura of murderous intent coming from her until Skulker had pointed it out.

"It looks like my job here is done," Skulker mused, "I think that Vlad Plasmius will be very pleased to hear what happened here." Skulker went intangible and disappeared through the ground unnoticed by everyone else there.

"Erethyr! Calm down," Sahra shouted. Erethyr turned to face her, but it was obvious from the look on her face that she didn't recognize anybody but the one that had killed Cid. Erethyr turned back around and continued to lop off huge chunks of ice from the frost giant until it was nothing but a pile of icy rubble.

"I think that now would be a good time to retreat," Fenris declared as he turned back into a puff of black smoke and went into a power line. Erethyr roared with unsatisfied rage.

"Sahra, you hold her down to the ground with your shield; I'm gonna try something," Alan proclaimed. Erethyr took a massive swing at Sahra. Sahra parried her thrust and bashed her shield against Erethyr, knocking her to the ground and her falchion out of her hand. Sahra put all her weight behind pinning Erethyr to the ground.

"Like this," Sahra inquired, frantically trying to keep Erethyr pinned to the ground.

"Yeah, just like that," Alan responded as he put his wrists together. The daggers that he had been holding snapped together perfectly as the golden octagon was completed. "Data Drain," Alan called out as the golden parts of his weapon shone brightly. A beam of golden light shot forth from his weapon and hit Erethyr, causing her to shriek in surprise. As Alan held the beam on Erethyr, her aura seemed to shrink as it was absorbed by the golden beam. Alan disengaged his power when Erethyr was back to a normal level of rage. He let the drop in adrenaline take care of the rest. Erethyr quickly went back to her normal digital form, but the white pentagram was still there.

"I think she passed out," Sam proclaimed as she and Danny ran up to the rest of their friends.

"Xavier, we need to go back to the computer lab and run a full diagnostic on Cid's weapons. They might hold some clue as to whether or not he's actually," Jeremy gulped, "dead."

"I thought that our digital forms would protect this from happening to us," Ulrich stated.

"But we weren't translated from the digital world," Aelita responded, "We activated these forms from the real world. There is a possibility that it won't work in the exact same way."

"Don't say that," Donjuan groaned as he tried to stand up, but instead reverted to his normal cat form, "He can't be dead. I still haven't repaid him for all that he has done for me."

"Let's just get back there and run some tests," Xavier declared somberly as he picked up Cid's gear. The group of friends ran back to the computer lab, hoping that their friend wasn't dead.

Nysis Headquarters, Computer Lab
"Tucker, do you think that you can run a full diagnostic on these," Xavier inquired as he laid the gear on the activated scanner.

"Sure, I've been learning how to run the super computer a lot better while you guys were out," Tucker replied as he started to punch the commands into the console, "What happened out there anyway? Where's Cid?" The room was eerily silent at Tucker's questions. "What happened out there?"

"We think that Cid might have…died," Odd replied after a long pause.

"I'll see if that is true," Tucker stated as he typed faster than he had ever done before. The ring lifted, leaving its green trail of energy behind it as Tucker started up the tests. A few minutes later, the ring went down and Tucker had the same forlorn look on his face that everybody else did. He turned to the rest of the group and shook his head silently. There were gasps and sobs from everybody. Cid was dead, and there was nothing that they could do to help him.

"Let's at least build a memorial for him," Donjuan declared as everybody else reverted to their normal forms, "I think that he would have liked at least that much." Xavier scooped at Cid's gear reverently as the group filed outside to make a small memorial in tribute of their fallen comrade.

When they were outside, Cassandra mounded up a little pile of dirt to make the foundation of Cid's memorial. When the mound was complete, Xavier stuck Cid's sword into it. He then carefully placed his gun belt on the sword's guard with the revolvers in their holsters. He stepped back and everybody present shed tears at the sight. A single ray of sunshine broke through the otherwise cloudy day and shone upon the memorial; it was as if the world itself was mourning the loss of a valiant hero. Danny stepped away from the rest of the group and found a rock that was about the size of his head and started to blast a message into it. He nodded over to Ulrich who helped him carry it over to the memorial. They placed it in front of the sword and everybody started sobbing harder. The rock's message was simple, but it still left a very big impact on those who read it.

Cid

A hero to some

A friend to all