A/N: Well, it has begun! FanFiction wouldn't let me upload this yesterday. It kept saying there was a 503 error... Anyway, that's over with, and here's the first episode of Code Lyoko: Reloaded! I hope you all enjoy :)

Episode 1: When the Snow Falls

"A Christmas party? Why did I not hear of this?" complained Odd, hands on his hips. "You know I'm the king of all Christmas parties!"

"Chill out, Odd," Ulrich sighed from his bed, tossing a paper ball aimlessly into the air. "It's just a party. And besides, it's tomorrow. You'll have plenty of time to find someone to take."

Odd hurried towards the closet, leaning down and digging through the drawer on the bottom. "You know me, I can always find a date!" He paused his digging and turned to Ulrich, a sly smile on his face. "I don't know about you though."

Ulrich sat up, a defensive look on his face. "Hey, I could find a date before you with no problem at all!"

"Right. So you wouldn't mind if I took Yumi to the dance—"

"Don't you dare!" Ulrich growled. When Odd let off another grin, Ulrich slammed his head back onto his pillow and sighed. "I…I just don't know anymore, I guess," he mumbled, staring out the window at the dark sky, lit up slightly by the half moon.

Odd frowned, feeling bad for his friend. "It's been six months since we stopped XANA. Why don't you just make a move?"

"Yeah, and then have her get angry with me for asking when she clearly stated that we're just 'good friends'? Yeah, I don't think so," Ulrich grumbled, turning his gaze to the ceiling.

"Oh, I don't know!" Odd said teasingly, turning back to the drawer and taking out a Santa hat. "I really think it would be different this time." Before Ulrich could answer, Odd shoved the hat over his hair and stood up smiling and holding his hands out beside him. "How do I look? Awesome, right?"

Ulrich turned to Odd with an arched eyebrow, and then started laughing to himself. "You look like Sissi gave you a Christmas makeover."

Odd frowned. "It's…just a hat, though."

"My point exactly!" Ulrich laughed.

Grumbling to himself, Odd tore the hat off his head and chucked it back in his drawer, plopping down on his bed while Ulrich continued to laugh.

"Hmm… I think that the polarity of the two magnets should be maximized to the highest level in order to make the equation readable, don't you think?" Aelita asked from atop Jeremy's bed, lying on her stomach with her feet in the air behind her.

From beside her in a chair, Jeremy looked up from his notes, his pencil on the side of his chin. "What's that?" he asked as Aelita showed him her notepad. "Oh, wow! That's absolutely right… Why didn't I think of that?"

"Anyway…" she began, setting down her notes as Jeremy wrote on his. "Are you going to the Christmas dance tomorrow? Before everyone leaves for three months?"
"Huh?" Jeremy looked up from his notes. "Oh, um… I don't know. Are you going?"

A blush was beginning to become evident on Aelita's face. "Well, I was hoping to go with a certain someone, but I don't know if he's going to be busy or not."
"Oh, who's that?" Jeremy asked, clearly oblivious to what she was saying.

"Well, he's intelligent, handsome, and nice…" she started. "He has the cutest nose…and the softest blonde hair…"

The brainiac looked up at Aelita. "I know sure as the sun rises you aren't talking about Nicholas," he scoffed. Looking off on his own, he added, "I'm not even sure if he takes showers every day…"

"He wears glasses…" Aelita continued, looking straight at Jeremy with a hinting tone evident.

Absentmindedly, Jeremy fixed his glasses higher up on the bridge of his nose, and then froze. "Oh… Oh! Wait…" He turned his gaze to Aelita, his face burning up. "Y-you're talking about m-me, aren't you?"

"Maybe…" Aelita giggled, blushing brightly.

A few seconds of silence passed before Jeremy began blurting words. "I-I don't have anything to do tomorrow. I-I mean, I guess I could… We can go to the…the dance…?" he stammered, his voice cracking slightly.

"Really? Oh, thank you, Jeremy!" Aelita said happily, leaning over and hugging the genius around the neck. As soon as she pulled away from Jeremy, she looked at the clock. "Oh, wow. I better get some rest." She turned back to Jeremy—who was still frozen with shock. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow."

Jeremy just stared frozen in place as Aelita got up from his bed and headed over to the door. "Uh…Aelita?" he finally managed to get out.

She turned back around with a smile on her face. "Yes, Jeremy?"

"Are you sure that Yumi's parents won't mind you staying with them for break? You know, since Odd didn't think it was a good idea for you to go back with him…"
"I'm 100% sure," she assured him, smiling. "Good night." And with that, she headed out the door.

Jeremy waited a few seconds before letting out a huge gust of air. "I'm sure gonna miss her…" he breathed. Turning to his bed, he looked down and gasped. "Oh, she forgot her notebook!" Grabbing it, he raced out after her.

"Who are you taking? Huh? Huh?"

"Hiroki, you brat, leave me alone!" Yumi growled, hand on the side of her face as she tried so desperately to watch a video on the internet. "I don't even want to go, so would you just leave?"

"Not until you take Ulrich to the dance, Yumers," Hiroki giggled.

Yumi whipped her head around to her brother, her face bright red. "We're just good friends!" she grumbled.

"Keep telling yourself that, I think you're really convincing yourself," he said.

Angry, Yumi jumped from off her bed and began chasing her brother. "Come back here!" she growled angrily as Hiroki took off from her room and down the stairs.

"Not unless you confess!" Hiroki called after her as he raced through the hallway and towards the front door.

"I don't like Ulrich like that!" Yumi growled. "Stop saying I do!"

Hiroki whipped open the door and hurried outside, his sister chasing after him. "That's not what your diary says!" he sang.

Yumi froze in place. "You read my diary?!" she screeched.

Hiroki turned around, running backwards. "Yeah, but it was just the same stuff. 'Yesterday, Ulrich looked at me with the most sincere smile, and my heart just melted'!"

"Oh, you little—oh!" Yumi flinched as a drop of wetness landed directly on her nose. She looked up into the sky, seeing that from the last time she had looked outside from her window, the moon was completely covered by clouds. Suddenly, small little flakes of frozen rain began to fall from the sky.

"Snow! Whoo!" Hiroki laughed, running around in circles from the sudden storm.

Yumi—forgetting all about her brother—continued to stare into the sky. "A little early for snow…"

Jeremy knocked on Aelita's door quietly, making sure that if she was getting dressed, he just didn't barge in. That would be rude…and embarrassing to her.

"Come in."

He opened the door slowly. "Uh…Aelita?"

The door opened the rest of the way, revealing Aelita in her pink pajamas. "Oh, Jeremy! What're you doing here?"

He blinked, lost in thought. "Um…y-you forgot your notebook," he stuttered, holding the book out to her.

"Thanks," she replied, smiling as she took it from Jeremy's hand. "I'll be sure to remember it in the future."

"Uh…yeah. Goodnight. Sweet dreams. All that stuff," Jeremy chuckled.

"Goodnight, Jeremy."

Hands in his pockets, Jeremy watched as Aelita closed the door, and then began back off to his own dorm for some well-deserved rest. Since they had defeated XANA, Jeremy had been getting the required amount of sleeping hours that teens needed, because he hadn't needed to stay up all night trying to perfect programs or stop XANA from attacking. He liked the luxury of waking up well-rested and ready for action.

Finally reaching his dorm, he put his hand on the handle and opened the door. Immediately, an arctic blast hit him in the face, causing him to shout with surprise. Holding his hands in front of his eyes, he looked for the source of the cold blast and found that his window had been opened, and there was a winter storm blowing around outside. Hurrying towards the window, he struggled with closing it as the wind blew hard at his face. Succeeding in closing the window, he frowned. "It's a little early for a winter storm in the beginning of November…" he mumbled. "Especially one that just pops up out of nowhere…"

A thought occurred to him, and he turned on his laptop, immediately going to the weather station's live channel. Watching the weather loop for a good minute, studying the patterns, he realized that this storm should never have happened. "There's no indication of a storm over France… So why are we getting a blizzard?"
He looked up and out the window, watching as the window quickly frosted up. "Strange. Very strange."

"Holy crap, Ulrich. Look outside!" Odd exclaimed, his face plastered against the bottom of the window.

From his bed, Ulrich looked out of the window with a frown plastered on his face. "Yeah. It's snowing, so what?"

"It's snowing! That's what!" Odd laughed. "Snow is amazing!"

"Snow is cold," Ulrich grumbled. "And annoying. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to get some rest. Night."

Odd turned around right as Ulrich covered himself with his blanket, going straight over his head. "Aw, you're no fun…"

"I said night, Odd," Ulrich sighed.

"…Fine," Odd murmured. "If you don't want to have fun, then I'll just go have fun outside myself."

Ulrich uncovered his head to watch Odd as he hurried to put on his shoes and a jacket. "Don't come crying to me when you get in trouble for being out past curfew."

"Ulrich, you're sweet. You actually care!" Odd replied.

"Sarcasm, Odd. Learn a thing or two." Ulrich pulled the blanket back over his head and turned towards the wall.

"Whatever, Ulrich. Be a grump. I'm going to have fun while you stay inside and be a bore," Odd said, hurrying out the door, leaving Ulrich to sleep in peace.

Jeremy eyed his laptop with suspicion from his bed as he sat on the edge with his pajamas. "It could just be a bug with the weather service live feed," he murmured, lying in his bed and pulling his covers over him, taking off his glasses and setting them on his nightstand. "It's just something with a simple explanation…" he sighed, closing his eyes.
A few minutes passed and Jeremy was fast asleep, snoring just ever so slightly. His laptop hummed back to life from its sleep mode, buzzing incoherently, red electricity crackling from the charger plug and traveling straight into the laptop. The screen flickered with an image for a few moments, before shutting off completely.

~Code Lyoko~

Golden rays of sunshine filtered in through the window of Ulrich and Odd's dorm room, rising Ulrich from his deep slumber. His eyes cracked open slightly, he reached his arm up and rubbed the sleep from them. "I haven't had that good a sleep since Odd came to Kadic…" he murmured, sitting up and rubbing them some more. Removing his hand from his eye, he looked around the room, noticing Kiwi still sound asleep atop Odd's bed from last night, but no sign of Odd. Ulrich frowned. "Did he already go to breakfast?"
As soon as Ulrich got to his feet, Kiwi rose his head and looked around the room. Once the dog noticed his master was nowhere to be found, he jumped off the bed and sniffed along the floor of the room. Ulrich watched Kiwi as he moved around the room, nose to the ground. He bent down as Kiwi came up to him whimpering and patted the pooch on his head. "Don't worry, Kiwi. I'm sure he just went to breakfast." As if the word reminded him, Ulrich turned towards Odd's drawer and pulled out a can of dog food and Kiwi's bowl, dumping the can in the bowl. The dog immediately began to chow down. Ulrich chuckled. "Just like Odd…"

A knock sounded on his door, causing Ulrich to look towards the sound on instinct. "Odd, is that you?"

"No, it's Jeremy."

Ulrich sighed. "Yeah, come in, Jer," he replied, sitting back down on his bed. The door opened and the brainiac appeared, still in his pajamas, laptop in hand.

"Something strange happened last night," he began, sitting next to Ulrich. "When I went back to my room, my window was open and there was a blizzard outside."

"Oh, yeah! That's right!" Ulrich exclaimed, snapping his fingers. "Odd was telling me to look outside at the snowstorm."

"Yeah, but it's strange because it's too early for snow and the storm just appeared suddenly," he explained, continuously pressing his power button. "That, and my laptop won't turn on."

"Did you charge it?"

"Obviously, Ulrich," Jeremy put in.

"Hmm… You're right. That is strange," Ulrich agreed. He looked over to Kiwi, and saw that the dog was finished eating. He picked the bowl back up and placed it back in the drawer. "You hungry?"

"Yeah, let's go get dressed and grab Aelita and go," Jeremy replied, shutting his laptop and heading out the door.

Once Ulrich got dressed, he met Jeremy and Aelita on the bottom floor and they began outside together. Jeremy stopped abruptly, and the others turned to look at him. "What's wrong, Jer?" Ulrich asked.

"There…was a blizzard last night…" He pointed around. "There's no snow anywhere."

Ulrich and Aelita turned to look, and sure enough, there was no snow anywhere at all. "This just adds to the strangeness factor," Ulrich said, turning to Jeremy. "What does it mean?"

"It's…just strange is all," he replied, starting towards the mess hall again. Aelita and Ulrich exchanged a worried glance before following after him.

"Do you think he may be hiding something?" Aelita whispered to Ulrich.

He shrugged. "I don't know. I guess he kinda looks suspicious."

After a moment or two, they stepped into the cafeteria and looked around. Yumi sat over at their usual table and they headed over, skipping the lunch line. "Hey, guys!" she called with a wave.

"Hey, Yumi," Ulrich answered, sitting down. "You haven't seen Odd by any chance, have you?"

"No…" she answered slowly, shaking her head. "I thought he'd be with you guys."

"We thought he'd be here," Jeremy said, setting his laptop on the table.

"Well, he's not here, and I don't think he has been. All the food is still intact," Yumi joked.

"Yeah, well I'm kind of worried now," Ulrich said. "He went out last night to go play with snow, and he's not here, or anywhere else."

"This is troubling," Jeremy grumbled, his hand on his chin. "First the strange storm that appeared out of nowhere, and now Odd is missing."

"He could just be somewhere we haven't checked yet," Aelita said, trying to lighten the mood. "Maybe we could ask everyone if they've seen him."

"Good idea, Aelita," Yumi agreed. "I'll go ask everyone who's still in their rooms. You guys can check in here."

"Is something the matter, guys?"

All four of them turned to see William standing at the head of the table, a confused look on his face. Ulrich frowned. "It doesn't concern you, William."

"Hey, I'm just asking is all! There's nothing wrong with asking, now is there?" he snapped back.

"Guys, calm down," Jeremy said, his hands out over the table. Turning to William, he added, "Odd is missing, and we don't have any clue as to where he is. Have you seen him?"

"Odd's missing? Did you check in the showers?" William asked.

"You know him, the first place he would've gone when he woke up would be here," Ulrich grumbled.

"Then I haven't seen him," he said simply with a shrug. "I wish I could help you, but I have yet to find a date for the dance." With a look in Yumi's direction, he left their company and headed over to a different table.

Ulrich arched an eyebrow at Yumi. "Am I missing something, or…?"

"No, you're good," she said quickly. "Anyway, I'm going to go look in the dorms. I wish you guys luck!"

Ulrich watched as Yumi left the mess hall with a completely confused expression. "What just happened?" he asked bluntly, arms out.

"She just wanted to find Odd as soon as she could, nothing else to it," Aelita told him. "It's fine, don't worry."

"Okay, fine," Ulrich stated, getting up from the table quickly. "Let's go ask around for Odd."

Jeremy and Aelita hurried after Ulrich as he walked over to the table closest to them—which just so happened to be Sissi's table. "Sissi, do you know where Odd is?" he asked.

"Um, no? Why would I know where that weird-haired freak is?" she replied snottily. "He's always with you, so why should I know?"

"You don't have to be so rude, Sissi," Aelita snapped. "If we need to know where someone is, it usually means we can't find them, and frankly I would like to know where my cousin is!"

"Me being rude? You're the one who's yelling at me, so you shouldn't talk," she said.

"Alright, alright, girls, calm down!" Jeremy exclaimed, causing the lunchroom to die down as they all wondered what was happening. "We're just looking for Odd, okay? No need to start a cat fight."

"Cat fight?" Aelita exclaimed questioningly.

Ulrich could sense the tension between the two as they stared at each other. "I know I started this by asking her, but can we go ask around some more? I kind of want to find my best friend."

Aelita sighed and turned to Ulrich. "Yeah, sorry, Ulrich. I got a little carried away…"

"Let's go, Aelita," Ulrich sighed, walking towards the exit with both of his friends at his heels. Before they could reach the door, another student—Emelia—stood up in front of them.

"Did you guys say you were looking for Odd?" she asked.

Ulrich's eyebrows arched and he perked up slightly. "Have you seen him? He disappeared last night."

"Yeah, actually I saw him at this creepy old house in the woods while I was out for my morning jog. It was weird…the way he was just standing there…" Emelia murmured.

Ulrich turned to Jeremy and Aelita, worried glances plain on their faces. "The Hermitage!" he whispered, all of them running out the door.

"U-uh… You're welcome!" Emelia called after them as they vanished.

Hurrying outside, they stopped abruptly to see that it had begun snowing once more. An unsettling chill dawned over the trio, causing them to shiver. "L-let's hurry. It looks like it's going to get pretty bad soon," Jeremy remarked, taking off once more.

"It's snowing!" a boy shouted, running outside and rolling around in the blanket of snow that was starting to drape the ground. More kids poured out of the cafeteria, doing circles or licking the flakes from the sky.

Ulrich and Aelita turned and watched the kids playing, causing Jeremy to pause in his tracks as well. "I have a bad feeling about this…" Ulrich murmured.

"Come on, guys!" Jeremy called with a wave, snapping Ulrich and Aelita out of their trance.

"Guys, wait up!" Yumi called, hurrying over to them and joining them on their way. "Did you find Odd?"

"Emelia told us she saw him this morning near the Hermitage," Aelita told her, her breaths pluming from her mouth as she spoke.

"The Hermitage? Why would he be there?" Yumi wondered.

"We don't know," Jeremy said. "That's what we're going to find out."

A few moments passed before they reached the Hermitage, the snow crunching underneath their shoes, getting thicker and thicker. Finally, they reached the old house, running alongside the fence. Ulrich looked over into the yard and gasped. "Odd!"

The rest of the group followed his gaze to find Odd with his snow gear on, rolling huge snowballs and making a snowman. "He's making a snowman? Typical Odd…" Yumi chuckled.

"And by the looks of it, he's been doing it for quite some time," Jeremy observed, pointing at the dozens of snowmen that were already made.

Ulrich walked into the yard and towards Odd. "Odd, what're you doing out here? You gave everyone a scare."

The blonde didn't answer. Instead, he continued to make the snowman he was currently trying to make.

"Odd? Hey!" Ulrich reached out a hand to touch his friend's shoulder.

"Ulrich, wait!" Jeremy called.

As Ulrich laid his hand on Odd's shoulder and looked back to Jeremy, Odd whipped around, a menacing look on his face. He snarled, causing Ulrich to turn back to him. Odd whipped his shoulder back, sending Ulrich flying back into a snow pile, covering him with fresh flakes.

"Ulrich!" Yumi called, hurrying into the yard, followed by Jeremy and Aelita. "Are you okay?" she asked, leaning down next to him.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Ulrich answered, rubbing his head. "But what the heck?" The four of them looked up to see Odd moving at inhuman speeds, making more and more snowmen as the more snow fell from the sky.

"I had a feeling…" Jeremy began, shaking his head. "This has XANA written all over it."

"XANA?" the rest of them echoed in disbelief.

"A snowstorm in the beginning of November? One that popped out of nowhere? Not to mention this morning when the snow vanished, and now when we find him and he's stuck on hyper drive?" Jeremy said, pointing his hand at the blonde, who was still rolling snow.

"I guess you do have a point…" Ulrich muttered.

"But how could XANA still be alive?" Aelita asked, a desperate plea in her tone. "Did my father sacrifice himself for nothing?!"

"Aelita, I honestly have no idea how he could have survived the multi-agent program," Jeremy said. "But right now, we have more problems to deal with—like Odd, for example."

"Why is he making so many snowmen?" Yumi asked finally.

The four of them turned and watched as Odd finished off his last snowman, putting the last stick in its side. Odd turned, the eye of XANA clear as crystal in his eyes. The blonde smirked, letting out a screech and pointing at the four of them. Suddenly, the dozens of snowmen shifted to life, causing the four of them to gasp.

"Uh-oh!" Ulrich exclaimed. "This is bad!"

"If XANA's controlling the snowmen…" Jeremy gasped. "The other students!"

"Kids, no pushing!" Jim shouted as he watched as the students made snow angels, snowmen, and snowballs.

"I'm gonna get you!" Hiroki laughed, holding up a snowball as he chased Milly and Tamiya, them squealing with joy.

"Silly babies, playing with snow," Sissi said snidely. "I, for one, am completely over that stuff."

"It does look like fun though," Herve stated from beside Nicholas.

"Yeah…" Nicholas murmured.

Sissi slapped Herve over the head. "Don't revert to their childish ways!" she scolded. "You're above them!"

Suddenly, a snowball appeared right in front of Sissi's face, hitting her square on. She let out a shout as the snowball fell apart as it hit her face. Herve and Nicholas gasped as Sissi began fuming, her face melting the snowball as it heated up. "Who threw that?!" she shouted.

The kids grew quiet as Sissi continued to accuse them all. "Show yourself now!" she growled.

As if on cue, the snowmen that the students made began shifting to life, wide grins on their faces as they snuck up behind the children as they were occupied.

"Uh…S-Sissi?" Herve began, pointing a shaky finger towards them.

"Not now, Herve!" she growled. A stick finger poked her on the shoulder and everyone gasped. "I said not now!" She turned around and gasped, seeing the snowman who had poked her shoulder. "AHHHH!" she screamed, causing a chain reaction with the students, who began running off in every direction.

"Now, kids, stay calm! There's gotta be a rational explanation for this!" Jim tried, but to no avail. A snowman picked Jim up, causing him to shout in surprise, and threw him into a snowdrift, silencing him.

As the snowmen drew closer, Ulrich stepped protectively in front of them in his Pencak Silat pose. "You guys get to the factory. I'll handle the Frosty the Snowman wannabe's."

"But—!" Yumi began.

"No buts!" Ulrich turned his head around. "Go," he added more softly.

With an understanding nod, Yumi turned to the others. "We have to get to the factory, come on!"

"Let's take the Hermitage path!" Aelita suggested, hurrying off towards the door that led to the secret passageway.

Ulrich waited as they disappeared into the pathway, and then turned to the snowmen once more. "You wanna play? Come on!" he shouted, kicking forward.

Jeremy, Aelita, and Yumi hurried into the factory, and towards the elevator. "This brings back memories…" Yumi murmured.

"No time for sightseeing, Yumi. We have to get Lyoko back on," Jeremy explained, pressing the button for the elevator.

"Right," she answered.

As soon as the elevator came up, they all stepped inside and began their descent. Aelita broke the tension. "Are you sure Yumi and I are all that's needed to stop this attack?"

"I'm not," he answered. "But we can always try, right?" Aelita and Yumi both nodded. The elevator doors opened and they all stepped inside the supercomputer power room. The operating system was up out of the floor, but the switch was still off. Jeremy stepped over to the switch slowly, his hand out.

"Hold on, Jeremy," Aelita said quickly, stopping Jeremy. He turned to her. "If we turn Lyoko back on…won't XANA gain full power again?"

Jeremy sighed. "That's what I'm afraid of," he said. "But if he's already possessing snowmen and Odd, then I'm sure that he's still got quite some power." With a nod from Aelita, Jeremy turned back to the switch and pulled it down, turning the machine on. The system glowed bright yellow as it turned back on, quickly switching to the bright orange that it was before it was turned off. Jeremy turned back to the girls. "Alright. Let's hurry."

Ulrich swung his leg through another snowman, it vaporizing into another snow pile on the ground. "Yeah!" he exclaimed, victorious. Suddenly, the snow piles that he had already defeated began taking form once more. Ulrich slackened his pose with his mouth wide open. "Oh, you've gotta be kidding me…"

A stick arm smacked him from behind, causing him to fall face first into a snow pile. He leaned up, spitting the snow from his mouth, turning to face the snowmen as they surrounded him.

"It's no use, Warrior," Odd said, his voice distorted as he came up in front of Ulrich. "You cannot defeat me this time, and I will win."

"In your dreams, XANA!" Ulrich chuckled, jumping to his feet and kicking Odd square in the chest, causing him to tumble back into a snowman, vaporizing it. Ulrich winced. "Sorry, buddy…"

Odd looked up, a snarl on his face as the eye of XANA burned in his eyes.

"Ready guys?" Jeremy asked, sitting at the computer, his fingers over the keyboard, awaiting the okay.

"We're ready," Aelita confirmed, her voice coming through Jeremy's earpiece.

He nodded, typing extensively on the keyboard. "Alright, girls. Step into the scanners."

From down below, Yumi and Aelita stepped into their respective scanners, now aglow once more. As they turned around, the doors closed on their figures.

"Transfer, Aelita. Transfer, Yumi!" Jeremy began.

The scanners hummed to life, glowing brightly from the inside, the fans from below blowing upwards and causing their hair to flow slightly.

"Scanner, Aelita. Scanner, Yumi!"

The scanner reel moved up slowly through the cylindrical tube, both Yumi and Aelita spinning slowly as the bottom of the scanner rotated.

"Virtualization!" Jeremy shouted, clicking the 'enter' key.

Aelita and Yumi's avatars virtualized slowly above the ice sector, them dropping to the ground as soon as it was finished. Yumi accidentally landed on her bottom. She stood up and rubbed it. "Ouch. I gotta get used to doing this again…" she laughed.

"Alright, guys. The superscan picked up an activated tower 50 meters west of your position," Jeremy said from above.

"Can we have our vehicles?" Yumi asked.

"No, sorry. When I rebooted the system, the programs for your vehicles also needed to reboot. That will take about two days."

Yumi shrugged. "Well, I guess we're going to have to go the old-fashioned way, right, Aelita?" she asked, turning to the pinkette.

Aelita nodded. "It'll be my pleasure," she giggled.

As they began running towards the direction Jeremy advised them, back in the supercomputer power room, a cloud began to virtualize over the system. An alarm sounded on Jeremy's computer, a window popping up and showing the genius the cloud that appeared over the system. "Uh, guys? We have another problem."

"What is it, Jeremy?" Yumi asked.

"A snow cloud just appeared over the computer system," he said, watching as the snow began to pour down from the cloud, slowly covering the floor and the system. "If it gets completely covered, I know for a fact that the system will fry."

"And that means we'll get trapped here!" Aelita finished as they still continued running.

"Exactly. So you guys have to hurry, or the snow will fall hard," Jeremy said.

"Easy for you to say," Yumi mumbled.

Suddenly, three red blips on the map appeared. Jeremy squinted at the dots, confused. "Guys, there's monsters up ahead. Although, I'm not sure what they are…"

Back on Lyoko, Yumi and Aelita hopped over a snow ledge, and immediately, Yumi got shot in the arm with a laser. "Uh…yeah. I think we see them," she answered, looking straight at the monsters. "And they're guarding the tower."

"What are they? Can you tell?" Jeremy asked.

Hurrying behind cover, Yumi peeked around the corner at them. "Well they kinda look like wolves."

"Wolves?" Jeremy echoed. "That's new… If XANA has enough power to make a new monster, then we have to muster up our strength to combat that power."

"They have long tails that curl up over their back like a scorpion," Yumi observed. "That's where they're firing from."

"Anything else?" he asked, typing on the computer.

"Well, they actually have eyes," she said, "but they have scars through them, like they're blind."

"Like they're blind…?" Jeremy paused for a moment before snapping his fingers. "That's it! They must hunt by scent! They're tracking you like actual wolves! Oh, XANA is clever!"

"Then that means we can't sneak up on them," Aelita said, peeking around from the other corner. "They know we're here, and they're waiting for us to get out in the open again."

"That's a problem…" Jeremy sighed. Quickly dialing Ulrich's phone number, he waited for the brunette to answer.

"Yeah, Jer?"

"How're you holding up over there, Ulrich?" he asked.

"Well…" Ulrich looked up from his position on the ground. "If you must know, I think I broke my leg. And the snowmen are gaining on me. How about you?"

"You broke your leg?" he asked in disbelief.

"It's nothing! Tell me what's happening," Ulrich ordered.

"Um…w-well Yumi and Aelita are having trouble. XANA made a new monster that looks like a scorpion and a wolf mixed," Jeremy told him. "Hang in there, Ulrich. We're almost there."

"It's not me I'm exactly worried about…" Ulrich murmured, hanging up his phone and watching as Odd stepped closer to him, an evil smirk on his face.

"Girls, Ulrich's in trouble. You have to deactivate that tower fast!" Jeremy exclaimed.

"We're working on it, Einstein. It's not exactly easy," Yumi said. She turned to Aelita. "Think we should throw everything we've got at them?"

"If they track by scent, anything we throw at them would be a dead giveaway," she sighed. "But we have to try. You attack from the ground, and I'll try from the sky."

"Got it," Yumi said, nodding. "On three?"

"Sure."

"One… Two… Three!" Yumi shouted, running out from cover as Aelita activated her wings and took to the skies. The wolf monsters immediately noticed them and began shooting at them. Yumi blocked most of the shots with her fans, and as soon as she got an opening when they switched to shoot at Aelita, she threw one at its head where the eye of XANA was. The fan brushed through the wolf's fur, slicing through the eye and destroying it. "Well, at least we know they're easy to defeat," she observed.

As the wolves' comrade exploded into code, they began to fire at Yumi. Taken off guard, Yumi was quickly devirtualized. Before she was completely devirtualized, she shouted up to Aelita, "Deactivate the tower!"

"Yumi!" Aelita shouted, flapping in the air.

Hearing her voice, the wolves immediately drew their fire at her. She was hit in the arm, but quickly dodged the other lasers. Throwing an energy field at one of them, it dodged, smelling the object coming. "Jeremy, Yumi was devirtualized, and they smelled my energy field coming!"

"Try your best, Aelita!" Jeremy said.

Yumi stepped out of the scanner, breathing heavily with her hand on the side of the scanner. "Well, that was eventful…" she scoffed. Blinking, she realized that the scanner room was covered in four inches of snow as the snow in front of her scanner fell inside. "Uh, Jeremy?"

"Yeah, Yumi?" Jeremy called from above.

"There's a cloud in the scanner room as well," she replied, looking up and seeing the cloud. "It won't be long before one reaches up there too."

Jeremy looked up at the ceiling, seeing one starting to develop. "Uh…yeah. Right, okay. Go check below and see how the system room is doing, would you?"

"Sure, Jeremy," Yumi answered.

Jeremy leaned back in his chair as the cloud began producing snow. He shivered, crossing his arms in front of his chest. "Aelita, how are things with you?"

"Well, I can't exactly get a good shot at them," she informed Jeremy, shooting another energy field at them, the wolves once again dodging to the side. "I'm going to try something."

"What?" Jeremy asked. When she didn't answer, he asked again. "Aelita, what?"

"Just wait," she answered, zooming straight down at the wolves. They continued to shoot at her, but she dodged the lasers by rolling through the air. Forming a large energy field in her hands, she closed her eyes. "I hope this works," she whispered.

Back by the supercomputer, Jeremy watched as the two red blips vanished. "Aelita, whatever you did, it worked! They're gone!"

Aelita laughed, landing in front of the tower. "I had a feeling," she replied.

"Jeremy, the control room is almost covered!" Yumi told Jeremy from below, crossing her arms in front of her chest and shivering. "I'm almost knee deep in snow!"
"Hold on, Yumi!" Jeremy told her.

"Hurry up, guys…!" Ulrich growled to himself as the snowmen slid forward, evil smirks on their faces as he held onto his leg. "I don't want to die out here…!"

Odd just laughed from behind the snowmen, his hands clenched in fists. He threw his arms over his head, static electricity charging at his fingertips as he was ready to deliver the final blow for the snowmen to give.

Ulrich closed his eyes as the pain from his leg seared through his body.

Aelita walked into the tower, the rings on the floor lighting up as she stepped over them and walked into the middle. A halo covered her as she began floating up to the top.

The students cowered in the cafeteria, the door blocked by tables and chairs as they huddled together for both warmth and from fear. "Someone save us!" Emelia whimpered as the snowmen peered in through the windows.

Yumi watched as the system began zapping with electricity. "Jeremy! It's about to fry!" she exclaimed.

Hearing this, Jeremy gasped and held onto his earpiece tightly, dripping with sweat despite the snow falling in the room. "Aelita!"

Back on Lyoko, Aelita reached the top of the tower, and stepped onto the pad, it lighting up the rest of the way. She walked towards the center, the panel popping up. She pressed her hand lightly on the panel, the scan reading her palm print. It finally recognized her palm print, typing up her name.

Ulrich gasped and covered his head protectively as the snowmen all reached down to him.

The students at Kadic screamed as the snowmen finally broke into the cafeteria.

The words 'Code Lyoko' finally displayed on the panel, and Aelita sighed. "Tower deactivated!" she confirmed.

The snowmen vaporized just as they were about to hit Ulrich, covering him with snow dust. He whipped his head, shaking the flakes from his head, and looked up at Odd. The blonde screeched towards the sky, a black cloud emerging from his mouth and vanishing into the sky, causing Odd to fall over. "Odd!" Ulrich exclaimed, crawling over to him. "Odd, wake up!" The brunette gently smacked his friend's face. "Come on, buddy!"

Odd's eyes slowly opened and he groaned. "Oh, what happened?" he asked groggily.

"Oh, Odd!" Ulrich laughed, hugging his friend.

"Uh, did I miss an episode?" Odd asked.

Ulrich just laughed.

The snow began to melt in each of the rooms, Jeremy sighing with relief. "This calls for a return to the past. Ready, guys?"

"As ever," Yumi answered.

Typing the codes into the supercomputer, Jeremy pressed the 'enter' key. "Return to the past now!"

A white column of light shone through the holomap of Lyoko, enveloping the whole factory, and slowly the whole of Kadic.

~Code Lyoko~

"Ha! What'd I tell you?" Odd laughed, looping an arm around his date, who just so happened to be Emelia. "I told you I'd find a date tonight!"

Ulrich laughed from next to Yumi, Jeremy, and Aelita. "As good a one as you'll find, I guess," he chuckled.

"What's he mean?" Emelia asked.

Odd shook her gently. "Never mind him, Emelia," he said. "Let's go dance to Jingle Bell Rock!" And with that, he took off with her to the center of the dance floor.

Yumi turned to Jeremy. "So I guess this means XANA is back, huh?"

Jeremy nodded after a moment. "Yeah, unfortunately. But that just means we'll defeat him again. XANA will never win."

"That's the spirit, Einstein!" Ulrich said, getting the blonde in a headlock and giving him a friendly noogie. "The Lyoko Warriors have returned!"

The three of them laughed as Jeremy tried desperately to fix his hair. "Ulrich! It took me an hour to get my hair looking that way!"

The three of them just laughed harder as a blush appeared on Jeremy's face, hot with embarrassment.

NEXT TIME ON CODE LYOKO: RELOADED...

"XANA's trying to make a new tectonic plate!"

"The system is about to disconnect!"

"YUMI, WAIT!"

A/N: I tried to keep it like an actual TV show XD So, I'm sorry if you're all confused. The break lines are for like simple transitions between two things. The ~Code Lyoko~ things are like commercial breaks/transitions with the characters name and avatar like in the actual show. I thought I'd give you a little heads up with the next episode. It's called "8.0", and it will be uploaded two weeks from yesterday, so in Januarry or something XDD I know the date, but I don't wanna look it up lol. Anyway, please leave a review! I need constructive criticism please. What can I do to make this better? What do I need to improve? Or is it fine the way it is? :)

Review, my loves~