Author's Note: Sorry that the last chapter was so long. I thought about breaking it into three parts, but it seemed that I should keep that first bit unbroken, so as to not confuse anyone or break continuity. So enjoy Part Two as well.

Introductions
Part Two

Jessie gasped as she awoke, panting and looking around. She was in some sort of forest area. Dylan was lying on the ground next to her.

"Dylan? Dylan, wake up," she shook him. He groaned and his eyes slowly opened.

"Huh…? Where are we…?"

"You're in Lyoko," Tyler replied. "At least, it looks like it. Both of your bodies have gone from the scanners and rematerialized inside the virtual world. Isn't that awesome? ...What? Oh, Artemis said she's on her way."

"Alright," Jessie said, getting to her feet. "Dylan!" He looked up and gasped as his body began to darken.

"Oh god! Tyler, what's happening?"

"What-? Oh, oh God, I have no idea. I'll try to stop it. Uh, it appears it's some sort of pattern from your mind that's emerging and manifesting onto your physical version on Lyoko. Um. Let's see…"

"Too late," Dylan said, admiring his new form. "It's done."

"Is it? Is it bad?"

"No, actually. It's really cool."

"Let me see if I can get a visual… Oh, holy cow. That is really cool." Dylan was now clad in a shining, almost plastic-looking white suit with a blue faceplate. On his back was a rifle, skinned the same as his armor. His chest had a blue symbol like the one on the supercomputer - apparently the recurring symbol of Lyoko.

"It's happening to me!" Jessie cried as her body began to glow.

"You'll be fine. It's just your image changing. It should be stable. Dylan, is Artemis almost there?"

"Looks like she's pretty close," Dylan said. "Only about a minute away."

"Whoa!" Dylan turned back to see Jessie in a black cat suit – complete with ears and a tail. On her chest was an X and a 3, tilted to the right 90 degrees to form a "cat face". "This is nice! Wait, you get guns, what do I get?"

"Jessie it looks like your only weapon are your nails," Tyler noted.

"That's fine. They're sharp." She smiled at her razor-sharp nails as Artemis came up.

"Look at you two!" Artemis grinned.

"And look at you," Jessie noted. "Are you an elf?" She nodded.

"You're a cat, and you're… a soldier?"

"Something like that," Dylan said.

"Alright, so you two are in Lyoko now. Awesome. Let's see if I can get you out."

"Out? But we just got here! And we didn't get to test our weapons yet," Jessie pouted.

"Well what are you supposed to test them on?"

"I have an idea," Artemis smiled.

"Alright, you two. You have 100 Life Points each. That's like your health in Lyoko. When that hits 0, it should dematerialize you."

"Should?"

"Yeah, should. You two insisted on doing it this way, despite it not having been tested. You each have weapons and, I think, an ability. I'll look into it and I'll tell you both at the same time, so neither of you gets an unfair advantage. Ready?"

"Ready."

"Ready!"

"One. Two. Three. Go!" Jessie and Dylan stared each other down from across the large grass platform. Dylan's hand itched over his pistol and Jessie crouched into an animal stance, baring her teeth.

"Bring it on!" Dylan yelled. Jessie growled and started into a run on all fours, like a cat. Dylan pulled out his pistol, firing off a few rounds that Jessie easily dodged. She pounced and Dylan ducked, kicking her in the chest as she flew off of him, tumbling to the ground, clutching her chest and gasping as it crackled with electricity.

"Jessie's down 10 Life Points," Tyler commented.

"That hurt!" Jessie cried.

"No pain, no gain," Dylan grinned.

"I'll show you pain!" She lunged and clawed at his chest, making him cry out as he pushed her to the ground, his gash crackling now as well.

"Ah, damnit!"

"Dylan, you're down 10 as well. It's 90 to 90. Also, I think I almost have both of your powers."

"Good! Hurry up!" Jessie said as Dylan pulled out his automatic rifle, beginning to spray the laser bullets in Jessie's direction as she dodged, gasping and running at him. He gritted his teeth as he continued to pepper the ground with bullets. As she pounced, he pointed the muzzle at her chest and unloaded a clip, causing her to cry out as each bullet held her in the air before throwing her back. She gasped and clawed the ground in pain.

"That was 30 Life Points. You're at 60 now. Also, I figured out your powers. Jessie, yours is Super-Scream – it stuns the enemy. Dylan, yours is Burst Flash and it does pretty much the same thing, but on their sight, not hearing. They're activated by saying their names."

At the moment they heard that, both of them activated their powers at once.

"SUPER SCREAM!" Jessie screamed, shockwaves ripping from her mouth as the sound of her scream was hyper-accelerated.

"BURST FLASH!" Dylan yelled, his body beginning to glow and then pulsing outward with a white light. Jessie flew back and covered her eyes as Dylan covered his ears, falling to the ground.

"Agh…!" Dylan groaned.

"Damnit!" Jessie whimpered. Tyler sighed.

"Well that's effective. Each of them have a three minute cooldown before you can use them again. It looks like each of you are out a sense. Dylan a sense of hearing, and Jessie your sense of sight."

"Fine, let's do this," Dylan said, hoisting his rifle up to bear. Jessie was nowhere to be found, however. He looked around slowly, scanning the area. "Where are you?" he yelled, his own voice muffled to his ears. Then, she pounced. She jumped from a tree behind him, claws digging into his back and teeth biting into his neck. He cried out and threw her off, firing his pistol as she scurried off behind the trees, presumably climbing up them.

"70 to 60," Tyler commented. Dylan gritted his teeth, looking all around up in the canopies of the trees, searching for Jessie. Suddenly, she tackled him from the ground and he swore as her claws dug into his sides once again. He fired his pistol round a few times, clipping her in the shoulder and throwing her off of him. He kept firing, but only one more shot connected before she snuck off again.

"50 to 50. You're tied." Dylan frowned. This was getting out of hand. He stepped back into the middle of the island where the trees were a bit farther away. He looked around feeling his sense of hearing returning and smiling. He kept looking around, pretending he couldn't hear.

Suddenly, he heard a rustle from the tree behind him. He grinned and waited until the rustle was silent, then he rolled forward, turning around to find Jessie lunging through the air, slamming into the ground as Dylan unloaded another clip into her. She screamed, her body crackling with electricity as each shot connected with her body. The rifle rattled away in Dylan's hand as he continued firing and finally he had expended his clip. He reached to his hip for another one but it was too late, as Jessie lunged and bit hard into his neck, slashing his chest.

"AGH!" The pain was searing and he felt himself breathing heavily as his vision began to blur. He kicked her off, feeling the pain almost overbearing.

"10 to 10. One more good hit and it's over." The two stared each other down before Jessie lunged and Dylan fired two shots. Both shots hit her chest and her eyes widened as she sank her teeth into his neck. Both began to feel a tingling and their vision blacked out, leaving them gasping as they exited the scanners back in the real world.

"Holy cow," Jessie groaned.

"That stuff HURTS," Dylan complained, rubbing his neck. "And you kept biting me!"

"Well, yeah, it did, like, 20 points of damage," she grinned.

"If you two are done, I want you up in the control room again, please." They headed up the ladder and into the control center.

"That was awesome," Tyler grinned. "You two are really learning to use your weapons and powers." He paused and frowned. "And you'll need to."

"Why?"

"There's another thing inside Lyoko, similar to Artemis, called XANA. XANA is sort of the darker side of Lyoko. He can use the towers you guys saw to influence things in real life. And by looking through the textbook while you two were inside, things don't look so good."

"What do you mean?"

"Cell phone towers, government computers, satellites; XANA can control pretty much anything he feels the need to control, just by activating a tower on Lyoko."

"So we shut it down," Dylan said.

"I wish we could. Shutting down XANA would mean shutting down Lyoko. There's so much we can do with Lyoko – so much potential. No… we can't end this yet. We can counterattack. Artemis can deactivate any tower that XANA's activated, super easily. Your job is to escort her there. There will be monsters, virtualized by XANA to try to stop her, now that I've figured out the virtualization code. He's like a parasite, feeding off of the information I learn and using it against us."

"So, what you're saying is, you've recruited us to fight a virtual supercomputer inside of a virtual world, to save the real one?" Jessie asked. Tyler paused.

"In a nutshell, yes."

"I'm all for it," Dylan replied.

"Me too," Jessie agreed.

"Alright then! But I think we need a few others."

"How about Stephen?" Dylan asked. "He's competent."

"I was thinking Stephen, yeah," I replied. "So Stephen's one. I think we need another. Four is a nice even number."

"What about counting Artemis?"

"I think we need four guardians. That way, if things go awry here, we can have two in and two out."

"That is a good idea," Jessie nodded. "We could ask Star. It would be best if she wasn't worried about where you were running off to all the time."

"That's a good point too. Alright, so we tell Stephen and Star. And tomorrow, all five of us come back to the factory for serious training. I want to see their powers too."

"Alright!" Jessie and Dylan went to the elevator.

"You two go on up, I'll meet you guys up there in a second." They nodded, hitting the button and the elevator doors closed. "So, Artemis."

"So you really think you can find a code to materialize me in the real world?"

"That I'm nearly positive about. There's really only one issue."

"And what is that?"

"These messages I keep getting on my computer. They're broken and messed up, but there's a code cracker on the supercomputer that I used to decypher the messages."

"And?"

"They repeat. 'Help us. Help us. Help us.'."

Much shorter than Part One. This is, of course, the conclusion of the Introductory chapter, though I honestly think that the first real chapter should be incorporated into the introduction. So don't stop reading until you've read the next one as well.