At Google the boys entered into Clip's and went to the lounge to find the girls weren't there. Jeremy checked the time and it was about 4:30 "hmm looks like we did that faster then I thought. Well we can hang here for the time being. I'll send a message to Agent KC and tell him we got Level 1 cleared"

Odd found a bench and put up his feet "ah" He sighed "you know Jeremy I'm glad we found the Internet." He commented "It feels nice to just kick back and relax without having to really worry about anything."

Jeremy nodded as he typed his message "Yeah," He replied "one could get used to living the virtual realm with everything that the Internet has to offer and just think this is only one site. There are other sites with different things that appeal to various types of programs. I still find myself amazed that there are as many program types are there are humans each handling different functions while still being human."

Ulrich said "it almost makes you want to escape from the real world and just live here finding your place among all these programs do whatever you desire with no real limits if you're experienced enough."

Jeremy nodded "that's right," He replied "age does not matter in the virtual realm only experience your story and how you react to certain things." He finished typing his message then sent it. "Heh well that should be it."

An alert popped up on Jeremy screen.

Jeremy said "huh?" He then clicked it It was an email from the Agency

Warning Hacker Status change

Dear Lyoko Warriors,

During one of your most recent hacks of Xanadu Shadows Inc you have stolen private property. You are now a gray hat Hacker, You have one hour to report to the SMART Agency to explain yourselves.

Sincerely

Erica Summers

AIC – Internal Affairs

A Post Script Note from the Second in Command Karl Christopher

Jeremy I told you all to notify the Agency before you steal anything. Now you're in trouble but good job on clearing the first level. I'll tell C.O.

Jeremy frowned "Guys, we didn't steal anything from our site right?" He asked quickly

Odd turned confused "huh? Where'd that come from Einstein?"

Jeremy said "The Agency just sent me an urgent message; they have marked us as grey hats because we took something from one of the sites and we have less than an hour to report to their HQ to explain ourselves."

Odd sat up and said "what?"

Jeremy flicked his screen over to Odd, "that's what it says."

Odd looked and made a face, "Hey wait a minute what happened to innocent before proven guilty?" He asked "We didn't even get a trial or nothing." He shook the screen "I demand a lawyer!"

The screen vanished

Jeremy sighed "We don't need one Odd, I think that this alert and hour time limit is our period to explain ourselves before legal action is taken. We better get over there ASAP.

Ulrich frowned "But we didn't steal anything from our site Jeremy," He stated "we were together the entire time. I'm sure of it"

Jeremy said "I know but as the leader of the group I have to take responsibly for our entire group which means I have to figure out who stole something from a site."

Odd said "well if it wasn't us, then the girls must have stolen something from their site."

Jeremy hummed "I know Aelita and Liz won't steal anything" He looked at Ulrich "and I doubt Yumi would too without good reason."

"Yeah," Ulrich said "that only leaves Kat."

Odd rubbed his human ears "I don't think my cousin's a thief." He muttered

Ulrich hummed "no," He muttered "but her pet is." He stated "do you remember when Kat first came to Kadic shiny things started vanishing?"

Odd nodded as he remembered "Yeah," He stated "the big kicker was when Tamiya necklace disappeared. Then we found it in Kat's room along with everything else and we discovered who been stealing the stuff, her pet ferret Strawberry." He exhaled "man that was a mess to take care of."

Jeremy said "had it been someone else who discovered it, Kat could have been punished and Strawberry would have been sent back to Kat's home and Kiwi would have most likely been taken away as well." He sighed "Anyways, we got to find the girls and fast. We only got an hour."

Ulrich said "do we have anyway to talk to them directly."

Jeremy said "as of right now no we got to talk to Clip and see if he can help."

Ulrich nodded "Right and maybe we should invest in some sort of virtual mobiles or whatever they use to communicate with."

Jeremy said "Yeah I think they do use mobiles or something. If we split up for missions we should get communications devices."

The boys went over to Clip who was standing behind the counter just monitoring everything. He noticed their panicked looks "Hey Jeremy something up?"

Jeremy nodded "yeah," He replied "we just got called by the Agency. We need to get a hold of the rest of our members now."

Clip said "sounds serious, what happened?"

Jeremy frowned "we think the girls stole something from Site 12,"

Clip gave them a slight grin, "and you guys didn't tell Agency beforehand, right?" He asked then chuckled "Not to worry just write a message and I'll have a runner find them."

Jeremy said "a runner? Kind of like Qué?"

Clip said "yep Qué an information runner, there are others who deal in running messages around the local site, they'll even run small packages like data discs and items.

Jeremy said "but it costs right."

Clip said "minor fee 100 zenny per message includes multiple recipients, but if you guys really just need to communicate with each other without any data packages and don't want to pay for runners, there's a store just down the street that sells mobile phones and other communication devices."

Jeremy hummed "but if we pay the runner more they'll stick around for replies."

Clip said "that's usually the case."

Jeremy pulled out five hundred zenny "get us a runner…"

Clip said "roger…" He moved over to a bin with a button on it and pressed it.

In a second a slim built program appeared "what you got?" He said fastly

Clip nodded over to Jeremy "He needs a runner."

The runner zipped over to Jeremy and pulled up a message screen "to whom…"

Jeremy said "Aelita Schaeffer, Liz Stuart, Yumi Ishiyama, and Katleen Della Robbia."

The runner typed the information in and said "What's the subject and message?"

Jeremy said "Subject, Urgent Get to Clip's Arcade. Message, We got trouble with the Agency get to Clip's ASAP." He handed the bill to the runner "stick around for a bit if they want to send a reply."

The runner nodded as he took the money and finished the message "Will do." He closed the screen and a message envelope appeared and he grabbed it and took off.

Jeremy said "that should get them to here."

Meanwhile on Marketplace Avenue Kat was just finishing buying a bow like item for Strawberry and had put it around her neck.

Strawberry growled in happiness as Kat petted her.

"hey Kat!" Aelita called. She approached Kat with a worried face.

Kat smiled "hey Aelita. What do you think of Strawberry bow?"

Aelita smiled slightly "it's cute" She stated then returned to a serious look, "Kat, Jeremy wants us back at Clip's something about trouble with the Agency."

Kat said "Trouble? About what?"

Aelita said "no clue but we better get back to Clip's Liz and Yumi are already heading back"

Kat said "right."

Kat and her started walking all of a sudden the runner came running up to them "I got a message for Katleen Della Robbia."

Kat said "That's me, if it about returning to Clip's Arcade I got it."

The runner said "I see" He looked at Aelita then nodded "well if that's all."

"Hey Fox Girl" came a male voice

Kat turned toward the voice, "alright who wants a piece of me." She stated sharply

A male rogue and a female chaser approached Aelita and Kat with three others. "Chill Fox Girl," the led rogue said "we just want to talk."

Kat took a stance "yeah, so talk, but I warn you talk is cheap."

The rogue smirked at the line "not when it's worth my time. Alright Fox girl, we got word that you lifted a file on a disc from a secure area in Site 12. Problem is our current employer wants that file back."

Kat said "so he sent a bunch of thugs to collect it? Sorry, I don't fall for cheap tricks. One I didn't steal anything, Two the file you're talking about is a disc that I won in a databattle by collecting the target file and three, well let's just say your lies are about as good as your file type. You don't even know what you're talking about."

The chaser flinched "ouch, three fastballs bro. She really knows how to pitch statements and insults."

The rogue grunted "alright, you don't believe me why don't you ask that runner for information. Hey speedy, you heard the news recently didn't you"

The runner hummed as he nodded "yes I did." He replied

Aelita looked at the runner "you know something about this."

The runner said "I received a general message alert that Site 12 had been hacked and that property had been stolen from said site and that the ones who took it were last seen heading towards Google. With this alert all runners have their guard up."

Aelita said "what for?"

"Any runner who acquires stolen property for transmission must be careful as they put their data on the line against those who want that file." The runner replied "Due to most of our power is in speed, If those who are after that file are faster then us well we hope our deletion will be quick as it is our job to not lose any transmission so they would have to delete us to get the file"

Kat said "even if that file isn't stolen after all."

"Does not matter" The runner replied "if an alert for a stolen file is called out, and said stolen file is acquired by a runner that runner must know how to run or be deleted."

The rogue smirked "and since that file is marked as stolen anyone who holds it will be attacked and most likely deleted because it covered by the Rockets"

The runner flinched "Rockets," He muttered "Honest, I haven't seen the file."

"Relax speedy," The leader rogue stated "we know who took it." He glared at Kat "and if she doesn't hand it over…"

"first off rogue," Kat growled "I'm not afraid of being deleted. If I somehow lose all my lifepoints my data zips out of here via a logout and I return to my home server taking whatever I saved to my data with me and thanks to my recent purchases I did just that so I've got nothing to worry about. Second, you don't even know who you're up against." She took an attack stance

"uh what was their name again Lyle, Loco something?" One of the rogues asked the led rogue in seriousness.

"Lyoko Warriors." Lyle replied "a bunch of humans who think just because they got cool custom profiles think they can play in our world." He pointed at Aelita "She's known as Angel Girl as she's got Angel wings to fly with and a sweet voice to match, as it heals any ally in range of hearing it, but don't get her angry, that energy blast of hers hits like divine punishment. I saw the last guy who took a point blank to the core and it was ugly"

"An Angel sent from above." The rogue muttered then straightened his clothes "I may just clean up my act."

Lyle scoffed then glared at Kat "and that little loudmouth is known as fox girl and the furball around her neck is her pet ferret. There's nothing special about her."

Strawberry growled

Kat growled as well "just like there nothing special about rogues, all of you are nothing but troublemakers."

"hey," Another rogue said as he took offense "just because we're rogues doesn't mean were troublemakers. We actually do things for a living, right Lyle"

Lyle said "Yeah, companies pay decent wages to have programs like us work the streets, and do other jobs that some don't want to do."

Kat said "sure, like being hired thugs to pick a fight. So who sent you, XANA?"

Lyle said "no actually, the owner of the disc did and he's a personal friend of mine so I decided to get a few of the group together and make sure we get that disc back."

Kat said "well you can't have it, so beat it or else."

Lyle said "it's five against two Fox Girl, you don't stand a chance."

Kat hummed "Hey runner, how fast are you."

The runner said "Fast enough…"

Kat said "If you make it to Clip's you'll find the rest of our group. They'll back you up if you deliver this to the leader Jeremy." She pulled the black disc then gave it to the runner.

The runner nodded "yes mam." He took off.

Lyle's eyes narrowed and he growled slightly "Terra you and Ryan follow that disc get 'him' if you have to."

The chaser nodded "Right Bro." Two simple overboards appeared and both Terra and one of the rogues jumped on them and took off after the runner

Both the other two rogues pulled out pole like weapons and one of them said "we ain't going to let them get away with this right Lyle."

Lyle pulled out a blaster and said "Hell No. You two get Angel Girl. Fox Girl's mine"

Kat pulled out her bow and said "come on!"

Strawberry let out a growl.

Lyle said "alright Rogues time to send them to the stars above. Let's Rocket"

The rogues engaged the two girls and Rogue Battle Theme, (Pogosticks from Animusic 2) started playing.

Lyle fired his blaster rapidly at Kat.

Kat used her bow to block the shots.

Lyle dashed to the left and circled around Kat and while taking more shots

Kat spun on her feet quickly and used her bow to block the shots and she came out of the spin she flicked her bow at Lyle launching dance arrows at him.

Lyle took the attack "oh…" He growled "don't tell me you're a dancer as well…"

Kat laughed "what's the matter you got two left feet."

Lyle scoffed and said "Two left feet I'll show you two left feet." He went down into a slide kick

Kat jumped over him to dodge

Lyle aimed his blaster at an upward angle "All Ammo!" He fired a powerful blast and hit Kat sending her flying.

She crashed but quickly recovered "oh that a nice counter. Lyle…" She said "but don't think you got me down."

Lyle reloaded his blaster. "You will be in a few seconds…"

"Actually you will…" Aelita replied

An electrical charge surged though Lyle making him cry out

Aelita was behind him and had used Stun Touch.

Lyle grunted as his body froze up and said "uh how you…"

Aelita giggled and on the ground where both the other rogues were KOed with marks on their bodies of energy sword hits and said "your two friends were no match for me when I disarmed one of them and used his own weapon against them charged up with my energy fields.

Lyle growled "looks like we bit off more then we could chew… alright I give… you got us."

Final Fantasy X victory tune played.