Kat turned somewhat recognizing the voice "Jeremy?"
Clip grinned and said "Whoever said that please step forward" while waving his hand in a come on taunt.
The crowd parted and the group led by Jeremy made it to the front of the crowd.
Clip looked at the group and smirked "Well, look like we got ourselves a wide assortment of warriors here, so who's the one that said he'll take me on."
Jeremy stepped forward "I did" He answered
Clip said "Name and Rank kid"
"Jeremy Belpois is my name, my rank is I don't have one" Jeremy replied in a even tone
Clip recoiled slightly in shock and said "You don't? You mean to tell me you never played a databattle before."
Jeremy shook his head "nope I haven't" He replied "but I've guided my friends in Databattles and in real battles thanks to me they have won all of them." He stated
Clip chuckled slightly, turned, waved Jeremy off, and said "Kid I don't take on Noobs."
"hmm," Jeremy hummed "well that too bad," He replied "because I was hoping to show you the power that deleted XANA about a year ago."
Clip flinched like a lightning bolt had hit near him.
The crowd just quieted down after hearing this and remained silent for about a minute.
Clip glanced out of the corner of his eye to look at Jeremy over his shoulder to carefully observe Jeremy, He then spoke "Kid did you just say that you deleted XANA about a year ago"
"That's right" Jeremy replied
Clip hummed "You got any proof of this?" He asked
Jeremy shook his head "not on me no," He looked glanced at his friends "but my group can witness a full two years of attacks that we countered every single time XANA launched an attack on our group we countered it and defeated him every single time and when he confronted us directly we took him down."
Clip turned his expression one of like he was remembering something "You know," He started "I heard a story once from my former colleagues of the Agency telling me about a group of warriors that supposedly deleted XANA, but investigations trying to find those warriors proved fruitless and were thought a lost cause." He studied the group "Now unless I'm proven wrong those warriors do not exist."
Ulrich sighed "Let's go Jeremy, it's obvious he's not going to help us. He doesn't even believe we exist."
Odd said "and we were so interested in helping the Internet out."
Yumi said "Jeremy, we'll figure out how to databattle another way, we'll make our way through this on our own. After all that's how we've done it before."
Jeremy sighed "Yeah it will be just like on Lyoko, The only people able to defend the real world from XANA because we were the only people who knew how to stop him from attacking it. Come on Kat we're leaving"
Kat sighed "alright… see ya Crystal." She ran back to the group.
The group turned to leave.
Crystal said "hey, hold up; what do you guys mean stop XANA from attacking the real world?"
Kat turned back to Crystal "You didn't know the XANA we knew launched many attacks against the real world aiming to kill innocent humans just because he wanted to"
Clip said "That a pretty big accusation… but again what proof do you got"
Aelita said "Well the Chosen One had a video that when I saw it I remembered that day when we found out who our opponent was. It seems to be coming back to me on what I said"
Odd and said "You know Einstein I'm starting to remember exactly what I said that day as well"
Jeremy said "So am I Odd so you guys ready"
Ulrich and Yumi said "Yeah"
A shadowy figure slipped a disc into a nearby player and the whole uncut scene from XANA awakens plays
Yumi said "Hi well find anything"
Jeremy held up his index "Yes XANA"
Odd got a confused look "XANA what's that?"
Aelita stepped forward and said "A super dangerous program, like a virus, but it can control electricity and it activates tower on Lyoko to gain access to your world."
Yumi asked "So the red tower, the electricity monster, the weird symbol, the monsters on Lyoko, all of that was XANA?"
Jeremy said "Yes only Aelita can counter it by deactivating the tower that it uses for attacks in the real world"
Ulrich slumped his shoulders "That's great what about materializing Aelita"
Jeremy said "I can do it but I need some time, it dangerous XANA can attack at any moment"
Aelita got a sad look to her eyes "Be reasonable Jeremy we better just shut this thing down"
There was a pause for a second but then Ulrich said "Listen now that we know how to neutralize XANA we just have to get Aelita to the activated tower"
Jeremy nodded "mmm hmm"
Odd said "We can a find a way to counter the attacks while Einstein figure out a way to bring Aelita to Earth Right"
Ulrich and Odd both looked at Yumi who nodded "It's risky but I think we should after all we are Lyoko Warriors aren't we."
Ulrich and Odd pounded their fist together and said "Yeah"
Aelita smiled slightly "You really think you can do it"
Jeremy said "They don't call me Einstein for nothing in a few weeks I'll have it figured out meanwhile let not forgot about our pact right?"
Yumi smiled "Hey relax we all know how to keep a secret"
Everyone was sneaking glances at the video while this performance was going on and was amazed
Crystal crossed her arms and said "You know I don't know about the rest of ya but I think they just proved their existence and their story."
The crowd murmured agreements
Clip said "Yeah they may have proven that story but there another story that XANA told us on how he was contently attacked by a group of kids trying to destroy him because his creator's daughter told them to and that your XANA was the creator daughter just blaming him for attacks she controlled"
Crystal looked at the group "Was that how it happened?"
Jeremy said "Just the opposite, XANA attacked constantly activating towers launching attacks against all of us and our friends up to once or twice a week."
Aelita said "And the creator's daughter, who is me, was only a young princess who didn't know anything on how to activate towers and it was by accessing the activated tower that first time I figured out that I can deactivate them. I had nothing against XANA at first and when I learned how dangerous he was I told my friends to shutdown the supercomputer trapping both me and XANA within it to protect them, but they refused saying that they wanted to help me."
Crystal recoiled slightly "You're the creator's daughter?" She asked in a tone of shock "Huh from XANA's story I was expecting someone a lot older like maybe 26 or something like that. You're barely my age"
Aelita said "I'm 16"
Crystal said "Like I said my age."
Clip said "hmm, from what I heard about you all is that you are skilled in fighting directly each mastering your own style."
Jeremy said "But we know almost nothing about Databattles and KC recommended we look you up"
Clip said "KC huh you know him?"
Jeremy said "Well I never met him but he and I used to talk often online then when he learned who I was, He told me he was an Agent"
Clip said "That's right and he's one of the best."
Jeremy said "and it was also him that said to tell you that he sent us"
Clip said "Oh he did huh that cool means you'll actually listen to my lessons" he cupped his hands "unlike some people here."
A groan of annoyance came back from across the way as Clip target heard the insult
The crowd chuckled
Jeremy said "So Clip how about we make a deal if I win this battle will you teach us everything we need to know about databattling for free"
Clip thought for a second and became hesitant "eh that's kind of pushing it Jeremy see just because you know KC doesn't mean you get free lessons just a reduced rate and winning a single databattle doesn't justify the cost of my time in teaching all the lessons maybe one possibly two if I'm feeling generous."
Jeremy said "I understand Clip but we don't have any money I've been trying to contact Guide but I keep getting a busy signal."
Clip said "You know Guide as well…"
Jeremy said "Yeah he set us up to get down here from Lyoko"
Clip nodded "hmm let me try" He looked up and shouted "GUIDE!"
Guide appeared in midair in a relaxed position reading a gaming magazine "What's up Clip"
Clip pointed to the warriors "Hey I just met the Lyoko Warriors"
Guide looked up from his magazine and said "Oh that's good hope ya teaching them"
Clip said "I would be but I think you forgot to give them something"
Guide blinked and said "I did?"
Clip said "My lessons are not free you know it needs something green and rhymes with chuck-ching"
Guide grinned and held his head "Knew I forgot something" He quickly flipped the pages of his magazine and several card object shot out and headed toward the warriors
Each one of the group grabbed them and took a look.
Odd said "Cool virtual I.D cards"
Ulrich looked at his "I think the camera caught my bad side"
Jeremy said "You're telling me I look like I'm giving someone a death glare in this pose"
Aelita said "hmm mine alright"
Kat said "Mine cools"
Liz nodded in agreement
Yumi looked up at Guide and said "So how does that help pay for Clip's lessons"
Guide said "The ID cards can connect to newly opened bank accounts sponsored by the Chosen One you now have each 3000 Zenny to spend as you please."
Kat said "Zenny? What that in Euros"
Guide thought for a second "uh let me get a quick check." He pulled out a calculator "Let's see currency exchange from Zenny to dollar is 100 to 1 and from Dollar to Euro 100 to 75 so were looking at…" he typed in some numbers "22.5 Euros a piece"
Kat jumped for joy "Sweet!"
Jeremy said "That's not too bad for all 7 of us that almost 150 Euros that's a lot of money."
Clip said "Well that solves that problem Guide"
Guide nodded "Yeah. Oh hey Kat," He held up the magazine "if you catch this month issue sometime you'll learn they pushed up the release date in Europe for the Present Hero Game."
Kat said "Sweet I can't wait but you promised me a copy I don't care if it in English"
Guide said "no worries, I'll hook you up later but until then check ya" He vanished in a burst of light but somehow the magazine didn't vanish and fell to the ground. "Oh I hate when I glitch like that" Guide muttered. A gloved hand appeared, grabbed the magazine and quickly vanished with the magazine.