Back on Lyoko the warriors with Xanatos help had created a sort of barrier around another tower that Xanatos activated. The barrier prevented the lyokoians from looking in but it allowed for the warriors to look out.

Ulrich was watching various Lyokoians come by attempting to monitor their movements. "So Xanatos" He said "What do you know about these Lyokoians"

Xanatos sighed "Where to start…" He muttered "Okay what do you guys know about the past of Lyoko…"

Aelita said "Well I know that my father built Lyoko. We also know he built XANA to destroy Project Carthage but we don't know if he destroyed Project Carthage"

Xanatos said "Well here's what I know… 13 years ago there were two virtual worlds at conflict with each other. One was owned by Project Carthage it was kind of like one of the Internet sites of today. The programs did their functions to assist in developing the project and everything was alright. The Master Control Program of that world was known as simply Carthage. He was the main program that they were working on. His main function was to monitor and disrupt communication however as he grew stronger his functions allowed him to disrupt more critical communications. Ones that allowed computers to talk to each other or as it is now called the Internet.

Aelita said "So Project Carthage is similar to the program that runs a level 1 counter measure in the real world to destroy all network communication and destroy the virtual realm"

Xanatos said "Correct. One man quickly realized that Carthage was getting to powerful and that man was your father Aelita… so he escaped from the project and started his own naming it Project XANA and using some stolen data from Project Carthage he created Lyoko however his escape didn't go unnoticed and the people of Project Carthage attempted to come after him but Waldo was good at hiding using your mother maiden name Hopper and his middle name Franz he came up with a new alias…"

"Franz Hopper" The group said in near unison.

"Exactly" Xanatos said "So under this new Alias, Waldo could not be detected and soon he built XANA and the Lyoko world. He had a plan. Use XANA to destroy Project Carthage and use Lyoko as a sanctuary to protect himself and his family with XANA controlling it. However not all went as planned. Project Carthage was smarter thanks to Carthage and using a tracking code built into the original program they managed to lock on to Lyoko but to destroy it they had to destroy XANA first and that's where the Lyokoians came in. They were groups of young adult humans virtualized into the network and turned into warriors of various skills in swordsmanship, archery, or magic kind of like knights of medieval times."

"or Final Fantasy" Kat piped in

Xanatos scoffed "Anyway the Lyokoians' mission was to invade Lyoko and download enough data to find out where the real world location was however to do that they had to get through hordes of monsters that XANA created to get to the towers. Most of the time XANA defeated them sending them back to Carthage in failure but one time they managed to get to a tower and download the data. That was on June 6th 1994 and some men in black was sent to take care of Waldo… what they didn't know was that Waldo had a secret ability that was unlocked mysteriously.

"Returning to the Past…" Aelita said

"Correct Again" Xanatos said "with this ability Waldo could rewind time back to before the Lyokoians' attack however except those those on both virtual worlds or had been scanned I.E Waldo and the Lyokoians. It would be like it never happened however to those who were on the virtual world it was like another day. Carthage instantly knew that they were dealing without the support of those not scanned so Carthage used this period of time to create and train an army of programs and Lyokoians making sure to have the Men in Black be sent out at exactly at a certain time to scare Waldo into giving them another Return and this when on for nearly seven years but after seven years of June 6th 1994 Waldo was finally ready to do the final attack. He waited for the cue from the men in black knowing that Carthage was timing it but when he got to his supercomputer he told XANA to launch a program to attack Project Carthage's World and bring the battle to him. A great battle ensued XANA being so powerful that Carthage army was no match for his power being wiped out deleting them this applied to the Lyokoians as well if they were hit by one of XANA attacks they could not return to the real world losing too much data Carthage seeing that his army was no match summoned up his own strength and started fighting XANA those that were still active watched the battle go back and forth. Both programs at equal strength."

"So what happened next…" Odd said "clearly someone had to win that battle."

Xanatos said "To tell you the truth I don't know who won that battle. My Father said it ended in a draw because Franz recalled him and locked him into Lyoko and shut the computer down but I don't think that the correct ending of the story…"

"So what happened to the Lyokoians?" Yumi said

Xanatos said "it was reported they were all destroyed but with the appearance of Takara near two weeks ago and the return of the Lyokoians now, it's clear they weren't all destroyed and that's what makes me doubt my father told me the correct ending. There's too much evidence countering his statement."

"So the Lyokoians were in a sense the virtual warriors of Carthage." Jeremy said

Xanatos said "I see your back online Jeremy how much did you hear…"

Back in the real world Jeremy was on his computer with a connection to the fort Liz was behind him standing and leaning on his chair looking at his screen which showed the map of the two towers and the area between them with the programs.

"enough to understand what we are dealing with…" Jeremy said "We are pretty much dealing with warriors like us and their programs."

Xanatos said "Correct. We got ourselves and a few monsters on our side right now they outnumber us but we can use all the resources of Lyoko to get them out of here. All we have to do is get myself or Aelita to the tower and deactivate it but I'll bet Jeffery had a few traps for us… like a databattle or a direct battle against himself or maybe even both as he's created a clone"

"Right well I'm sure both of you together could handle a databattle and I'm sure Ulrich itching for a sword fight between him and Jeffrey for last time" Jeremy said

"You got that right Einstein" Ulrich said "The guy is a real punk for messing with Yumi and me just after our fair fight."

Yumi said "We can most likely take him but we will have to worry about the other programs"

Xanatos grinned and said "Well you be happy to know they got the same code as XANA monsters."

Kat said "in other words one hit with our weapons on a critical spot and boom."

Xanatos said "Yep…"

Kat said "Sweet"

Xanatos said "but it won't be that way with the Lyokoians their strength depends on how much training and what hidden powers they have

Ulrich said "Well… I'm sure they know my moves for the most part. I fight hand to hand and with my swords"

Xanatos said "you also got speed right…"

Ulrich said "Yeah…"

Jeremy said "But we've seen Jeffery in battle as well… He fight relentlessly and consistly leaving himself wide open if you manage to dodge or block his attack."

Xanatos said "An aggressive style huh…" He smirked "he doesn't look before he leaps…"

Ulrich said "use a passive style of fighting and you can knock him though a loop…"

Xanatos said "Yeah… alright I think we got the final part down now all we need to do is make sure none of those programs can get us…"

Kat said "A little family tag team with me and odd flying on overboards can take care of them."

Jeremy said "But we're going to have to make sure we hit them right… I would hate for us to mess up. There got to be a way to figure out a pattern of their patrols.

"Belpois what are you and Miss Stuart doing up in the dorms at this hour." Came a familiar tough voice

Jeremy flinched and turned in his chair.

Behind him was Jim Morales leaning in the doorway

Jeremy said "uh Mr. Morales we were just uh…"

Liz said "We're playing a game. Jeremy was hired as beta online tester for a game as an extention of the Zoobdude series… It seems the creator working with a sort of medieval world slash final fantasy game and he needed to iron out some of the programming bugs so with the group help he's running a level. This is our first attempt at the level however…"

Jim said "hmm… mind if I watch?"

Jeremy said "not really. I'm having a slight problem with figuring out these patrols however."

Jim said "hmm… what have we got here…"

Jeremy pointed to various spots and said "Well we got three swordsman here to the right close to our base a mage and and two archers here to the left also close and they switch sides every minute or so. Our goal is to get to the tower in this valley here but there only two paths covered by similar groups which at the end are guarded by two copies of the same opponent just two different battles and we'll need to destroy both of them to get access to the tower and win this round.

Jim said "hmm… so what do we have on our side."

Jeremy said "We have two people on flying personal vehicles called overboards one with wrist blaster of arrowheads while the other with a bow like whip while the rest are on foot a speedy samurai with two katanas, a ninja like geisha girl with metal fans like boomerangs a warrior with a powerful sword and a princess with the ability to use powerful magic attacks. We're thinking of using the two flyers to get the patrols taken care of just don't know how to do it yet"

Jim said "hmm… alright… if I remember correctly you can usually get the attention of the patrols by one person then when they are after him use the other to back them up catch them off guard and I think the best time just after they switch… have one of the flyer maybe the whip user get the attention of the swordsman and have the other one come up behind them and shoot them down."

Jeremy said "You hear that Kat…"

Kat said "loud and clear thanks Jim we'll get right on it…"

Jim chuckled "Hey when they come out with the final version Jeremy let me know… I've been wanting to take a crack at some new games. You know I used to be a tester for video games"

Jeremy said "really Jim how you do…"

Jim said "well uh I rather not talk about it"

Both Odd and Kat busted up laughing

Ulrich and Yumi had grins but were managing to keep their laughter in.

Xanatos looked at them and said "mind telling me what's so funny…"

Odd said "Oh nothing just something you get used to at our school. The Gym Teacher Jim says used to be something else like a forest ranger but when you ask for details he rather not talk about it."

Kat said "I think he's claimed at least a hundred different jobs if not more."

Xanatos said "I didn't think the real world has freelance missions like that."

Kat said "Freelance missions?"

Xanatos said "Oh yeah yeah… The big sites of the Internet are known to host job boards for simple missions ranging from anything from escort missions to item hunts. They are a decent source of cash if you're good and quick…"

Odd said "Does Google have a board."

Xanatos nodded "yeah…"

Odd said "maybe we'll check it out sometime. The warriors could always use more cash."

Xanatos said "huh… that 15000 you got from my father not good enough for you."

Ulrich said "It was good enough it paid for training and buying items and cards to do our job."

Xanatos said "Purifying my father sites. I know… You guys can't leave them alone can ya…"

Aelita said "I'm sorry it's what the Chosen one wants and he's our employer."

Xanatos smirked "Figures…"

Aelita said "So anyway are we going to do this."

Odd said "On it… come on Coz…"

Jeremy said "They just changed the guard we make our move now!"

Kat said "Moving!"

Kat took off on the overboard and flew near three of the knights. "Hey Knights where your horses?" She laughed and took off.

The Knights flew after her…

Kat led them around the base and Odd was hovering and when they passed him he flew behind them and fired.

The arrows hit the backs of the knight and the Lyoko symbol suddenly shimmered where it was hit and the knight exploded

Odd said "I get it the armor weak to our weapons so if we hit the armor with our weapons the program deleted."

Kat said "Cool! Let's get the rest of them Coz"

Ulrich said "Now it's our move… Supersprint!" He shot from the base and headed down one of the paths.

Yumi said "Power of Ice… Ice Slider!"

Yumi feet became coated in Ice and she followed after Ulrich like a speed skater.

Jeffrey suddenly appeared and met Ulrich charge.

He and Jeffrey crossed swords

Jeffrey said "Not a bad little move but you won't get past me… none of you will.

Ulrich said "We'll see about that. You and me one on one"

Jeffrey said "done…"

A barrier surrounded duo and allowed them to duke it out

Yumi waited at the barrier edge with her fans out just in case one of the Lyokoian programs decided to mess with her.

Meanwhile Xanatos and Aelita made their way down the other pathway.

Jeffrey Clone appeared as a 7 by 7 board appeared and said "Shall we play a little game…"

Xanatos said "why not… you're just a clone sub program not the real thing… you only got enough data to play a game and not fight directly.

The Clone said "You're one to talk… after all weren't you just a clone sub program before. Only by your father mixing three different beings you became what you are now"

Aelita said "uh… a clone sub program?

Xanatos said "tell you later…"

The Clone said "Let's us duel for Lyoko!"