Author Notes: For a general idea of what XANA looks like if you played Pokemon Coliseum the Cipher Admin Ein is about as close of a XANA as you can get it's what I based XANA's new looks off of.

Also this new game that XANA challenges the warriors to is a remix version of a flash game that I found on the Lego site several years ago. In my opinion it's a fun game but I've added several new features to it if any of the original creators of that game happen to see my story. I just want to say, I would have never come up with my ideas for this game if it weren't for you all and Lego my thanks to you

XANA's theme started playing in the background as the room lit up and it was revealed to be an office like room. A tan faced Middle Aged human with black hair slicked neatly to the back with two long bangs that hung freely to the side wearing a white formal lab outfit entered and sat down on a throne like office chair.

The guy chuckled and said "Welcome my friends, I'm glad you gave a prompt reply once you got my message."

Kat made a face of disrespect "Who are you to act all high and mighty?"

Odd gave the guy a weird look and said "XANA?"

XANA chuckled and nodded

Jeremy just stared at his old foe "You've changed…"

XANA smiled, happy that Jeremy can understand so quickly, "That I have Jeremy" He replied "and I'm so glad you decided to finally come to the virtual world so we can finally meet in person." His smile turned to a smirk "now we are on equal ground aren't we?"

Jeremy nodded "yes… equal…"

Kat gained a confused look as she looked at the rest of the group "Hold up a minute, That's XANA?" She pointed her thumb at XANA "I thought you guys said he was a black cloud of smoke."

"I was," XANA replied "but I've upgraded from that form…" He smirked slightly "Kathleen"

Kat jumped slightly in shock as she turned quickly to face XANA "Hey, how do you know my name?" She demanded

XANA put his arm on an armrest and put his hand to his chin and he studied the group "I've done some research and been watching you all for a while now."

Yumi said "You been watching us?"

XANA nodded "Correct." He replied

Jeremy said "How did you even survive the Multi Agent System?"

XANA relaxed his hand "hmm, I would tell," He said in somewhat an apologetic tone "but you have kept me waiting and I have a very important meeting in a half an hour so I would like to get this over with as fast as possible. I'm a very busy program with a lot of responsibilities." He explained

"Then make it simple," Jeremy replied "we've come, we see your back now release Aelita and Kat!" He demanded

XANA spread out his hands like he was referring to something in front of him and said "To do that you have to win a battle"

"I'll take you down!" Kat spoke up getting tried of XANA's high and mighty attitude "Bring it!" She shouted as she pulled out her bow like whip and snapped it in the air ready to fight

XANA smirked "Very well Kat," He stated "Databattle Begin!"

Energy flowed through the floor dividing it into 3 foot squared panels and a barrier surrounded a 5 panel long by 10 panel wide area that placed Kat in the bottom center of it

Kat relaxed her battle stance and looked around in confusion and said "Wait, this is how you battle XANA?"

Jeremy adjusted his glasses to study the panels and said "Actually we haven't seen this before."

Kat grunted "You haven't?"

XANA chuckled and said "None of you have battled like this before. I'm sure of it. This is a battle that only the Internet uses."

Jeremy jumped at this "Internet!"

"Jeremy" Aelita said "somehow XANA found a world within the Digital Sea simply called the Internet. It is how he was able to rebuild himself."

"The rules are simple for this game." XANA started preventing Aelita from saying anymore "You have two stats, one is called Move Rate, the other is called Life Points. Each player of a databattle has these stats." He looked at Jeremy "Jeremy if you please pull up a screen."

Jeremy pulled up a screen and it showed a top view of the area that is active with Kat's and Strawberry's markers on it.

Jeremy and the others looked with curiosity and Jeremy said "huh…"

XANA uses a mouse to move a pointer on Jeremy screen and clicked on Kat to show a card like picture and her stats

Character Name: Kat Della Robbia

Move Rate: 3

Life Points: 100

Attacks: Whip, Block

Whip: Attack opponent with a whip 30 damage range 2

Block: Prevents Damage from all attacks

XANA said "Kat has a move rate of 3 with 100 life points"

He clicked on Strawberry to show a picture and her stats

Character Name: Strawberry

Move Rate: 5

Life Points: 40

Attacks: Fury Swipes, Counter

Fury Swipes: Slash claws multiple times, Random damage from 10 to 50 points, Range 1

Counter: Pass attack phase and if Kat is attacked Strawberry counters opponent for 30 damage. If Strawberry is attacked this effect is negated for the rest of the turn

"While Strawberry has a move rate of 5 and 40 life points, for each point in your move rate, that is how many panels you can cross in one turn. Life Points are simply that how many points of life you have before de-virtualization or logout when it reaches 0 you are removed from the game, and maybe even out of this realm." He chuckled lightly as he thought of Kat being de-virtualized "Now to see your opponents" He stated as he waved his hands to the side.

Two Kankrelats appeared on the grid right in front of him in the first and fifth columns.

Monster Name: Kankrelat

Move Rate: 1

Life Points: 30

Attack: Laser

Laser: Shoots a laser bolt at opponents 10 damage Range 5

Odd said "Two Kankrelats that it?"

Yumi said "Talk about starting off easy"

XANA said "Now we begin, the challenger always gets the first move"

Databattle start

Kat's First Turn

Kat looked around and said "Okay Guys, a little help what do I do?"

Jeremy said "Kat from what I'm reading here is that your attack can only reach two panels in front of you got to get within two panels of a monster to attack it with your Whip attack you can only move three panels maximum at a time so maybe just move forward three panels to G3 your on J3 right now."

Kat said "Alright if you say so Jeremy." She walked forward until she was in G3 "Now what?" She asked.

Jeremy said "Well you can't possibly attack right now so I just say End your turn.

Kat said "Okay End Turn"

Strawberry's First Turn

Strawberry growled and scampered to G4 and looked at Kat for a command.

Kat said "Jeremy how close does Strawberry have to be to attack"

Jeremy said "One Panel I think for Fury Swipes but I'm not sure about her counter so just tell her to stay there and pass"

Kat said "Okay Strawberry, stay there girl"

Strawberry squeaked and ended her turn

Security's First Turn

XANA said "hmm Kankrelats down one"

Both Kankrelats moved down from A1 and A5 to B1 and B5 respectively

XANA scanned the field "Nothing in range, I'll end the security turn"

Kat Second Turn

Kat said "Alright I think I got this" and moved to D3 "I'll end my turn"

Strawberry second Turn

Strawberry saw the Kankrelat and growled a little and charged at it crossing all the way into B4 using all her move rate.

Kat said "Okay girl use Fury Swipes"

Strawberry growled and leaped into the air aiming at the Kankrelat

All of a sudden she froze in mid air as a rolling dice appeared on Jeremy screen

Kat said "What in, She frozen in midair"

Jeremy said "A dice that must be how we figure how much damage she does." He hit the stop button and the dice showed a 4

Strawberry unfroze and continued on her course to the Kankrelat and slashed it with tiny claws four times

The Kankrelat shook and made robotic noises and shattered into bits

On Jeremy screen the lifepoints of the 2nd Kankrelat dropped to 0 and its tile disappeared "Yes one down" He cheered

"You got it, good going girl" Kat praised her pet

Strawberry squeaked in happiness

XANA chuckled "Not bad for a first attack but it's now my turn"

Security's Second Turn

XANA said "Kankrelat hold position, target Kat and use Laser"

The Kankrelat on B2 rotated 45 degrees and charged it's laser and shot a laser bolt at Kat

Kat cried out in shock when she realized that the Kankrelat was going to shoot her and tried using her whip to block it but it just passed right through it and hit Kat in the chest. She yelped as she felt the hit and held the place where it hit "uh so that what it feels to be shot at" She muttered

On Jeremy screen her life points dropped to 90

Jeremy said "It was a minor hit Kat, it's only did 10 life points of damage"

Strawberry growled angry that monster attacked her owner

Kat's third turn

Kat said "I'm going to get that monster for hitting me" She moved to B3 and said

"Jeremy. I'm in range right?"

Jeremy said "Yep, let it have it."

Kat said "Bow Whip!" She swung her whip at the Kankrelat and smacked it right across its eye.

The Kankrelat shook and made robotic noises and shattered into bits.

"Yeah got it" Kat cheered

Jeremy laughed as the tile vanished off the screen "Yep that look like you won the game Kat. Good job."

XANA chuckled evilly "Don't celebrate just yet, the fun just about to begin" He pulled out a card the size of an ordinary playing card with a silver Z symbol on it

"What!" Kat said as she looked at XANA and pouted "Hey, I won" She whined

"The game doesn't end until one side falls." XANA stated "I had three monsters for this area. Two Kankrelats and" He flipped the card "A Megatank!"

The group all got wide eyed and said "A MEGATANK!"

Security's Third Turn

Security Admin XANA used Rulebreaker Card Megatank

Megatank: Summon a Megatank to any position on the field

The Megatank appeared on the grid at the position F3

Kat turned around to look and said "That's a Megatank"

Ulrich said "Watch out Kat, a Megatank is one of XANA best monster"

Monster Name: Megatank

Move Rate: 0

Life Points: 60

Attacks: Laser Blade, Withdraw

Laser Blade: Shoot a Blade shaped beam across a Row or Column 50 damage Range current column or row.

Withdraw: Hide in protective shell to prevent damage for next turn

Jeremy said "Don't panic Kat, I'm sure you can beat this one too."

Kat said "Okay…"

XANA said "Sense it's a summon I'm force to forfeit its attack phase so it's now your turn

Kat's Fourth Turn

Jeremy looked at his opponent "XANA, what was that card you used to summon it?" He asked

XANA looked at the Megatank card and said "Ah the cards are called Rulebreaker Cards, they allow me to do various things to this game like summon Monster to an active game, restore lifepoints and many other things."

Jeremy nodded slightly "uh huh, now how do we get our hands on some of them"

XANA chuckled "I'm not telling."

Kat was unsure what to do "Jeremy, what do you think I should do"

Jeremy looked at the screen "hmm I say… move to D2"

Kat said "Got it" She moved to D2 "hmm" She tried using her Bow Whip and it was out of range by one panel "Darn not close enough"

Jeremy said "You just needed one more panel closer"

Strawberry Fourth Turn

Strawberry squeaked waiting for a command

Kat said "Strawberry stay away from this Megatank it's too powerful."

Strawberry stayed where she was at and passed her turn

Security Fourth Turn

XANA said "Megatank withdraw"

The Megatank closed its shell and a barrier surrounded it

Kat's fifth turn

Kat made a face "Oh now what am I going to do?" She whined

Jeremy said "The withdraw move protects the Megatank from attack. You got a similar move Kat using your whip."

Kat said "I tried that it didn't block the laser from the Kankrelat"

Jeremy said "That's because you attacked with Whip and didn't use Block. You got to use block instead of whip to protect yourself on the next turn. Move to E3 and use Block."

Kat said "Hmm fine" She moved to E3 and twirled the bow around her gaining a circular barrier "Hey that's looks pretty cool"

XANA laughed "Foolish human you just feel into a trap" He pulled out another card this one with a bronze Z on it.

Jeremy said "Another Rule Breaker Card!"

Odd said "That's so unfair"

XANA said "I know" He flipped the card which read Anti Shield

Anti Shield: Any player with a shield will receive double damage if hit

Jeremy said "No… Kat look out!"

XANA said "Megatank attack with Laser Blade"

The Mega tank opened and charged up

Kat stared "Oh shoot…"

The blade shot out and hit Kat

Kat screamed and vanished to bits

On the screen her life points fell to 0 and her tile disappeared

Odd said "No Kat…"

XANA laughed "It's…"

All of a sudden the Megatank exploded.

XANA jumped at this "What!"

Jeremy looked at his screen. He grinned and said "XANA your card just worked against you"

XANA said "What! How?"

Jeremy read "Any player with a shield will receive double damage if hit and you forgot there was one other player"

Strawberry stood where the Megatank once stood and was growling

XANA got a wide eyed shocked look "uh!"

Jeremy said "It's seem that when Kat is attacked and if Strawberry passed her attack phase on her last turn she will counter opponents for 30 damage no matter where they are and your Megatank Shield was still in effect until our next turn and that card double the damage it took from the counter doing enough to destroy it."

Ulrich said "Wait, that means we won right Jeremy"

A voice said "That's right players you have take your prize."

The force around Aelita chair deactivated along with the field.

Aelita noticed this and got up quickly "Yes" She cheered and ran to the group.

Strawberry followed.

XANA smirked, "Well Lyoko Warriors you have won this time." He stated then he turned in his chair to face the window "Now leave," He commanded "you may use the portal to get back to Lyoko."

Jeremy said "Hold it XANA, we still got a few questions."

XANA growled "I'm a very busy program, I have no time for questions, be gone!" He slashed his hand backward sending a dark wave of energy out of it and hit all the warriors sending them all flying into the portal. "Hmm annoying pests" He muttered

Back on Lyoko everyone shot out of the portal and crashed on top of each other. The portal closed afterwards.

Odd chuckled and said "Gee kind of make you think that XANA doesn't like us"

Ulrich rolled his eyes and said "I wonder why? We only showed him up on a game he thought he had us on"

Yumi said "Well now that we got Aelita back what do we do?"

Aelita said "Let's get back to the real world and I tell everything that XANA told me before you guys showed up. Uh Jeremy?" She called out not seeing her best friend

"Down here Aelita" came a muffled voice

Aelita was sitting on Jeremy and Jeremy had his face planted against the ground "Oh sorry" She got off of him

Jeremy shook his head "It's alright Aelita." He replied "I'll get us out of here now. He pulled up a screen and logged everyone out.

Back in the real world Kat was waiting by the computer when Jeremy woke up. Kat said "Hey Einstein so that headset does work for you"

Jeremy said "You bet" and took the device off "So how you doing after that last attack?"

Kat said "Oh, I felt a bit of a headache when I first came out but it went away. So what happened after I left?"

The group came in

Aelita heard the question and said "Right after you got hit Strawberry launched her counter attack and used XANA's card's effect against him. We won, XANA got ticked off and blew us back into the portal back to Lyoko."

Strawberry scampered over to Kat and squeaked

Kat said "That's my girl. You earned an extra treat tonight" and picked her up and hugged her

Meanwhile back on the Internet

XANA replayed the events of the game "Grr." He growled "it make sense on how they won but why didn't I see it coming?"

Xanatos entered and bowed "Father I hate to interrupt you but your meeting time is approaching fast"

XANA nodded "Thank you my son, you have command of the site until I return." He threw a black key toward Xanatos.

Xanatos grabbed the key without even looking and said "I won't fail you father."

XANA said "I know you won't." He vanished into bits as he transported himself out of the building

Xanatos looked up and grinned "Well time to take my spot" He sat down on his Father chair and read over the console displays "huh I wonder what those humans are doing now."