About an half an hour later the group minus Kat and Jeremy were finishing some food in the lounge

"You know" Odd said as he finished a slice of a pizza "I always wanted to know what food tasted like in the virtual world and let me tell you it's awesome."

Ulrich said "Yeah I know. I never tasted food this good for such a decent price."

Yumi finishing a rice bowl complete with chopsticks "You think Jeremy done yet. I don't know how much time we have left before we have to be back at school"

Aelita said "Yeah what time is it anyhow"

A chime went off in the background as the outside light started to dim

The group all looked and Liz said "The light, it's dimming what going on"

Crystal came over "It's just becoming the evening hours it's almost 7 o-clock"

Ulrich said "oh we got an hour and a half before lights out and we have to be back in our dorms by 8."

Yumi said "I have to be back by 8 myself but I'm sure we can make it back in time. So where is Kat?"

Crystal said "She's been racking up Experience for her dance shoes in DDR. I've never seen someone with that much stamina."

Odd said "You haven't seen Kat she'll dance until she collapses on the pad or runs out of tokens."

Crystal said "Well hopefully the second occurs first"

Aelita said "I'll go check on her and makes sure she's not overdoing it"

Odd said "Thanks Aelita."

Aelita walked over to the DDR section and Kat just finished beating a guy in DDR

Kat grinned and said "Anybody else want to try?"

Aelita walked over and said "Hi Kat"

Kat said "Hi Aelita your just in time, I just finished beating some of the best dancers here"

Aelita looked at about 2 boys and 3 girls in various causal outfits who were sitting down and rubbing their legs from straining them from dancing.

One of the boys looked up and said "Hey I'm Jason I was the top dancer of my group here until Kat out danced me. These are my friends Clair, Erica, Amy, and Jose" he pointed to each one as he introduced them

Aelita said "Nice to meet you I'm Aelita"

Jose said "You a dancer too?"

Aelita said "A little Kat been teaching me I've been able to do five footer with a little difficulty

Amy said "That's not too bad so what your favorite song"

Aelita said "I have to say Speed over Beethoven; I think its Kat's favorite too"

Jason said "That a tough song especially at our level. We haven't seen her perform that one yet"

Kat said "Come on Aelita let's show them what we can do" she inserted four tokens into the machine and got Aelita set-up on Medium level. "You ready"

Aelita said "Let's go"

Kat selected Speed over Beethoven Full Version.

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Both girls danced in near perfect sync to the steps

At the end of the song they got a huge cheer from the dancer group and from others watching

Clair said "That was amazing,"

Erica said "You both got some real skills. You should come down here at this time more often. We love to hang out with you two."

Kat said "Looks like I just made some new friends. Can you ask Jeremy if I can come back?

Aelita said "I'm sure it's alright but we got about a half an hour before we have to go"

Kat whined "Oh and I was just warming up"

Aelita said in a scolding tone "Now Kat you know if you misbehave Jeremy is not going to let you come back."

Kat sighed "Okay I'll behave." She looked up and gasped "Aelita behind us!"

An evil pulse seemed to flow over the area when Kat said this

Aelita turned slowly and behind them at the counter was none other then

Aelita gasped "XANA!"

XANA was talking with Clip and hadn't seemed to notice Kat or Aelita, but as soon as he was done talking he noticed both of them. "hmm? Well, what have we here? If it isn't my old friends Kat and Aelita, How are you doing this evening?" He said in a semi-surprised tone.

Aelita said "What are you doing here XANA?!"

XANA replied "Just making a final payment for my son tutoring to Clip here" He made reference to the Databattle Teacher. "and if I may be blunt what the hell are you doing here on the Internet?" He growled

Kat grinned "We're learning the game XANA…" She posed in a taunt manner "It's not fair for you to have all the cards."

XANA said "Oh are you now," He looked at Clip and smirked slightly "Hmm and I'm sure you could afford the rates of Clips lessons it's costed me over ten thousand Zenny for my sons lessons and I'm sure you warriors don't even have that."

Ulrich voice spoke up. "Actually XANA, we didn't even need that much."

Ulrich Yumi Odd and Liz were to the left of XANA in a spread formation with their weapons armed.

Crystal went by her dad to watch this confrontation

XANA said "Hmm so how much did he charge you."

Clip said "I charged them my reduced rate seven thousand Zenny since they knew one of my allies." He grinned slightly "I'm sure you have heard of Agent KC"

XANA growled and clenched his fist "I've heard of him" He gained a contempt look "compared to the Chosen One he's even more a thorn in my side then that pathetic human."

Jason shouted "Hey watch your mouth punk, Some of us programs still believe in the Chosen One, especially after hearing the truth."

The crowd gave various agreements

Liz said "You've heard our story"

Jose said "Oh yeah news spreads like wildfire here. By the time someone told their story everyone in the site knows. Give a day and the whole Internet knows, Information comes standard here in the Internet. Ain't that right Clip?"

Clip chuckled "You bet it is."

XANA smirked amused "Hmm, Well then Lyoko Warriors I'll give you some information" He glared at them. "You even think of attempting to access one of my sites I'll make sure the security shows no mercy and deletes you."

Jeremy voice spoke up "Oh we already know that XANA." He walked in. "if you don't remember, we fought against you for two whole years; we know your security programs inside and out."

XANA turned to face Jeremy "Do you Jeremy I'm sure you don't know of the upgrades I installed recently you're going to have a very tough time dealing with my systems."

Odd yawned and said "You know Ulrich do you think XANA ever got rid of that one weakness his programs all have?"

Ulrich said "Well if he hasn't we know how to easily beat them."

XANA turned back to Odd and Ulrich "Weakness hmm… My programs are indestructible you can't beat them"

Jeremy said "How much you want to bet XANA? I bid one hundred Euros that the Lyoko Warriors can hack into one of your sites and shutdown the security system faster then any Agent ever could and I'll bet we could do it our first time"

XANA smirked at Jeremy "Hmm… I highly doubt you can Jeremy but I do love a bit of a challenge I'll see your bet of a 100 Euros and raise it to make it an even 15,000 Zenny which should translate to about 113 Euros what do you say…"

Jeremy said "I say you're on XANA"

XANA smirked "Very Well Lyoko Warriors I'll see you all around, maybe keeping you guys alive would be more entertaining then I first thought. Just to let you know it only took the Agency 6 minutes to get through my security."

Ulrich said "Oh and XANA say Hi to Xanatos for us tell him that KC was sorry that he took several pot shots at him."

XANA growled "hmm, so he dares to attack my son? I'll make sure to file a complaint with the Agency."

Yumi said "You might as well tell them he was using a tower on Lyoko to attack the real world as well. All of us can be witness to it."

XANA got a wide eyed look and said "Hmm did he now I'll have to confirm that with Xanatos" and walked out of the arcade knowing he had lost this battle.

Yumi said "You know that the first time we've won a battle with only using words"

Jeremy said "They say Yumi that the truth is sharper then any two-edged sword."

Clip said "On Central they had a poem that told of that power, Swing the Sword of Truth and the words of those who lie will fall to pieces."

Liz said "Sword of Truth?"

Clip said "It's a sword that was once wielded by one of the Zoobdudes, the original leaders Central. They each had a weapon that stood for what they believed in. They also had their elemental power which reflected their beliefs. The Sword of Truth is Lightning Zoobdude's weapon of choice."

Kat said "Lightning Zoobdude… wait his element wouldn't happen to be Electricity by any chance would it."

Clip said "That's right. Those that wield Lightning's element of electricity will always seek the truth."

Kat said "That's great that means I'll always hear the truth from everyone."

Jeremy said "Good here some truth for you Kat we got get to get back to the real world it's getting near lights out."

Kat whined "Oh do we have to I still got 12 tokens!"

Jeremy said "Yes…" He pulled up a screen in front of him and typed on it to activate the logout sequence "Clip thanks for teaching us and I'm sure we'll be around."

Clip said "Of course you all are always welcome to my place"

Crystal said "Hey Jeremy," She threw a packet of Rulebreaker cards at him "Don't waste them."

Jeremy caught the packet and said "Thanks Crystal uh you want your Data Doctor back"

Crystal said "Nah you keep him, I'm sure he'll be more useful to you anyhow."

Jason said "Hey Kat do us a favor and defeat XANA those who insult the Chosen One aren't cool with us. He's one of the top DDR players we know"

Kat said "Sweet I like him already. You got it"

Aelita said "It was great meeting you all"

Jason said "Likewise. See ya around"

Jeremy said "Lyoko Warriors Logout!"

A bright light flashed as each of the warriors vanished into bits