After they got to the place that the Dragon Booster called Penn Stables, he had his dragon "mag" them off of it. None of the warriors were sure just why he called it that. But after doing that, he raced his dragon out of sight. Almost instantly, another teenage boy rode up to them. He was atop a red and blue dragon that looked almost exactly like the Dragon Booster's dragon, Beau. It only needed a paint job and frills. "Hey man, why'd you run off?"

"Um, who are you and what are you talking about?"

"Don't play dumb! You just rode off on that very dragon! All you did was change clothes and all Beau did was change colors!" The boy began looking distressed.

"Listen, I don't know who you think I am but my name's Artha Penn, as in Penn Stables."

"Well, you may be Artha Penn now but just a few minutes ago you were the Dragon Booster!"

"Wait, you saw the Dragon Booster?"

"Yes, and I'm looking at him right now!" Artha began looking around.

"Where is he? Where is he?" Ulrich chuckled.

"Wow, Odd, you may have competition for idiot of the month." Umi smiled.

"I don't doubt that."

"Odd, are you sure this is the same person?"

"Of course I'm sure." He walked over to the dragon. "Look, I'll prove it to you. Exhibit A." He pointed to its chin. "Notice how this dragon's chin is super long, just like Beau's."

"We haven't seen enough of this place to know just how common a chin like that is."

"Fine, moving on to Exhibit B." He pointed to its eye. "It has the same color eyes as Beau."

"Once again, we haven't seen enough to know how common that is."

"Fine, Exhibit C." He pointed to its horns. "Look, they're the same size and shape."

"Well…" Aelita tried but couldn't come up with an explanation.

"And Artha sounds just like the Dragon Booster. And this dragon is the same size as Beau. And look," he grabbed Artha's right wrist, "he has a weird bracelet made of gold, just like the Dragon Booster's armor. And right after the Dragon booster disappeared, this guy appeared. Must I go on?"

"No, Odd, we get it." Artha turned to the teenage boy by the green dragon.

"You didn't tell me it was that obvious, Parm."

"I just assumed that the darkness of Down City would cover it up." Artha gave him a look of disbelief.

"You're kidding, right?" Parm shook his head. "Oh, man! I'm through!" The girl by the red dragon rolled her eyes.

"Artha, nobody besides these kids has said anything, right?"

"You're right, Kitt." Artha looked at the warriors. "You guys won't tell anybody, will you?"

"Of course-"

"Maybe we will. Maybe we won't. It all depends on what you guys are willing to do to help us."

"But, Odd-"

"Come on, Aelita, this may be our only chance and I for one am taking it." She slightly frowned before nodding in agreement.

"So, what do you guys need help with?"

"We come from another place. We were supposed to virtualize in a virtual world called Lyoko but we think something went wrong because we were virtualized here. We can't contact the guy that usually figures out how to get us out of bad situations. After a little bit, we thought that maybe we could hack a computer and contact him."

"That's why you broke into the Dragon Eye Compound."

"You mean the building where you found us?"

"Yeah, that one."

"Right, we believed that any building with security like that would have a computer. However, all we found was a giant psycho skeleton dragon."

"Libris."

"Right, and we have to get to a computer and get back to Jeremy before it's too late."

"What'll happen if you don't get back in time?"

"X.A.N.A. could take over our world, destroy it, destroy Lyoko, or even takeover or destroy this world."

"Oh, no! We can't let this X.A.N.A. guy destroy Dragon City! We'll help you!" Artha ran to Beau and yelled, "Release the dragon!" Kitt ran to her dragon and magged on. Parm ran to his dragon and did the same. "Come on, Lance!" The kid playing games by a blue dragon turned off the game and magged onto the dragon. Suddenly, a laser hit at Aelita's feet.

"Oh no." A group of five small creatures, each with four pointed legs and a large head with a strange marking on their heads, moved towards the group. Artha stared in awe.

"What are they?"

"Kankrelats. They're some of X.A.N.A.'s goons."

"So they're the bad guys?"

"Right."

"You heard 'em, Beau." Artha raced towards the creatures and blasted them with mag energy. Two of them disappeared. The other three opened fire on him. Beau roared and blasted the attacks. They attacked again. This time, the attacks connected with Beau. However, instead of acting like the blasts had hurt him, he fell over and seemed to be laughing. Artha crawled off of him. "Beau?" The kankrelats fired again, causing Beau to go into another laughing fit.

"I don't believe it. Their lasers have been turned into tickle rays."

"Oh no way!" Odd let the monsters hit him. However, he did not laugh. "Ow! That didn't tickle!"

"Odd, maybe only the creatures of this world are affected differently." Odd growled and took aim at the creatures.

"Take this! Laser arrow!" The arrow hit, causing one of the kankrelats to explode and disappear. The other two continued firing at Artha and Beau. Artha fell down next to Beau and joined him in laughing.

"Super sprint!" Ulrich destroyed the other two monsters. After a few minutes, Beau and Artha shakily stood.

"Wow, you guys fight those things every day?"

"Yep! So, can we get going?"

"We can't go find a computer until we make sure that there aren't more of those things."

"Fine, but don't we need dragons?"

"Uh, right, I think that we could find a rental place somewhere…"

"Wait, people here rent dragons?"

"Yeah, some people don't have a choice."

"Where we come from, people rent cars."

"What are cars?"

"They're these man-made machines that have four wheels and run on gasoline."

"What's gasoline?"

"Oh boy." Umi turned to Ulrich.

"He's not serious, is he?"

"I think he is."

"Hey! Could we forget about cars and focus on getting dragons and hunting down the other monsters so that we can go home?"

"Fine, let's go."

"Wait, Artha, you can't go as the Dragon Booster."

"Right." He pulled the amulet out of the gauntlet. "Chose who you want to ride with. Odd rode with Lance. Umi rode with Kitt. Aelita rode with Parm. And Ulrich rode with Artha. They raced off towards the dragon rental place.