It was a crisp morning as the groups were just walking up and getting ready for the day. As soon as they made it into the cafeteria, Delmas walked in.

"Attention students. Just a quick reminder that this afternoon will be the opening of our new recreational room." Delmas said.

"Yes. My petition went through." Dan said.

"How long ago was that?" Hope asked.

"About a year ago. I didn't think he's go through with it, but I was wrong." Dan said.

"Finally, we get some place to unwind." Natsu said.

"And a place I can really stretch my wings." Pit said. "Not literally though."

"A place for fun and games." Luffy said.

"A place where we can talk freely. So great." Ranma said.

"You guys are taking this WAY too relaxing." Hope said. "Jeremie, have you tried running that program to bring willam to his senses again?"

"I'm going to run it this afternoon." Jeremie said.

"You think it'll bring the real one back?" Maka asked.

"Lets hope so. That double is really not adhering to willams rep." Soul said.

"Hey, be lucky I was able to make a duplicate of him." Jeremie said.

"Yeah. But he's an idiot. I told him to chill out the other day, he jumped right into the river." Kanji said.

"We really need to fix his bugs." Hope said.

"If only that Programmer from our near death experience was still around. What was that kids name..?" Sunset asked.

"He was the crossdressing Ultimate Programmer, remember? The one who made Alter Ego?" Twilight asked.

"I remember him. He was so kind and meek. He wanted to get stronger before Mondo killed him." Fluttershy said.

"A programmer? What was his name?" ulrich asked.

"Chihiro Fujisaki. The Ultimate Programmer." Rainbow said.

"But asking him for help is useless. He's dead." Naoto said.

"Wait, maybe we do have a way of having him help. In a sense." Hope said taking out a flash drive. "Put this into the factory's main server."

"Whats in there?" Sunset asked.

"An old AI freind." Hope said.

"Alter Ego? How? We saw him get crushed." Naoto said.

"But remember when Flux, Makoto and I almost got killed? Well, Flux told me of a special plan he had. He secretly downloaded a copy of Alter Ego into a flash drive and then infected the system. After we got separated, he retrieved it. Then I found it in my pocket before we left." Hope said.

"Flux must have given it to you as a thank you gift." Fluttershy said.

"A real AI…" Jeremie said. "When we have free time, we'll upload it in the factory."

After school, Jeremeie and Aelita headed with Hope to the factory while the others saw the rec room.

"This is so awesome." Ranma said.

"But remember, Saotome, this is your responsibility and…" Jim said before eyeing a Ping Pong table. "Oooh! Ping Pong!" he said.

"I didnt think you were a table tennis fan." Mahiru said.

"Yeah. Back in my day I was all state champ, wanna hear about it?" Jim said.

"Id rather you show us." Kanji said grabbing a paddle "Put em up, gym coach!"

"Geez. For once I'd rather have talked about it." Jim said serving it up.

"Hey, has anyone seen Peko?" Luffy asked.

In Lyoko…

Peko leaned against a tower.

"My only question is why you wanted to use Delayed Virtualization to come here." Fuyuhiko said in a black suit with a tuxedo outprint.

"This is the main tower for the willam duplicate. I'd like to be prepared to guard it incase it gets activated by XANA and his troops. Plus, I wanna avoid contact with it." Peko said.

"It? What it?" Fuyuhiko asked.

"In the trees, there was something hiding in them, watching Yumi." Peko said.

"Back in the forest, I felt that too, whenever we were running to the factory. LIkewas it was some kind of warrior looking after her or keeping tabs on her." Fuyuhiko said.

"Oh, thats just Blaziken, nothing to worry about." Jeremie said cutting in.

"Jeremie? I-it was her idea, not mine! She just thought… wait, Blaziken?" Fuyuhiko said.

"Yeah, a pokemon. Blazikens always in the dark looking after Yumi for some reason, but I don't know what. I probably should have told you guys that when we got here." Hope said.

"But still, thanks for coming to guard the tower early in case Xana shows up. Like your gear?" Jeremie said.

"The tuxedo print on the bodysuits a little weird. Why couldnt I just be in one?" Fuyuhiko asked.

"You dont see Peko complaining about hers." Jeremie said as Peko was in a bushido gi with a sword by her side. "So just….uh oh." Jeremie said.

"What's wrong?" Hope asked.

"There's a glitch in the program." Jeremie said.

"That aint good." Hope said bringing his comm up to Yumi. "Program for WIllams been bugged, any changes over there in the rec?"

"If you mean changes, yeah. He's a competitive jerk! He's worse than ever!" Yumi said.

"Keep an eye on him." Hope said. "Aelita, we cant risk doing anything else. You'll have to go in manually."

"I was already planning to." Aelita said walking down to the scanners.

"Transfer, Aelita. Scanner, Aelita. Virtualization!" Jeremie said.

Aelita landed near the tower as she ran towards it only to bump into it.

"Oh no. You're identification data's all bugged up too. The tower doesn't recognize you." Jeremie said.

"More problems too." Hope said. "Tarantula trio, crawling in hot!"

"I see em!" Fuyuhiko said as they came in from straight ahead.

"I'm sending in an Overwing." Jeremie said programming one in as the Tarantula's were closing in. "Not good. It looks like XANA's trying to take the tower."

"Well we aint just gonna stand here." Fuyuhiko said getting next to peko. "Ready?"

"Of course." Peko said drawing her sword as Fuyuhiko pulled out a knife as they ran at the monsters as Aelita covered from the air. Two tarantula's assumed shooting mode as they engaged both at the time, while the third crawled past them to the tower.

"No, we were careless." Peko said as the Tarantula stood near the tower in pride.

"I cant even transfer energy from Sector 5 to protect it, its also bigged." Jeremie said as the tower turned red.

Hope activated his comm. "Guys? Things are about to get real ugly over there."

"It...already has." Yumi struggled to say as the William Double had her pinned down.

Ulrich acted fast and slammed it with a chair, causing it to collapse for a minute, buying enough time for them to run.

Sissi ran behind a building and opened her phone.

"What happened to william?" Sissi asked.

"Dunno, but this is what a heros gotta do. Ready to suit up?" Rotom asked.

"Go ahead and do it!" Sissi said as Rotom entered Sissi, making the armor appear around her and cover her face, also enlarging her to make her look more heroic. "The electric hero, Motor...is on duty."

"Bzzt! All systems go!" Rotom said.

Back at the dark cruiser.

"Motor? Boss is still out, cant let these guys go." Ian said seeing the gang split up. "Send a pseudoroid on the japanese girl in black, now!"

"No need to shout you idiot." Eggman said. "I'm sending in Buckfire."

A large deer like creature with flames on its horns walked out of the ship as it charged towards the school.

"Target sighted. Preparing to…" it said before being kicked back. It looked up to see Blaziken standing above it.

"I will not allow anyone to lay a hand on Yumi. Not as long as I still take breath!" Blaziken said.

Yumi stopped and saw this.

"You worry too much about me, Blaziken. And I still cant understand why." Yumi said as she ran to leave them to fight.

"You are a fool. Why do you worry about this stupid lik system. You're pretty powerful enough without a worthless human." Buckfire said.

"No. I am weak. I already lost someone I cared for once, someone who was also my link...I will not lose another!" Blaziken said hitting Buckfire with a flurry of kicks.

"Rrrah...Rockit!" Buckfire siar slamming into Blaziken, sending them both onto the campus where the willam clone was chasing Ulrich. At that moment, a flash of lightning appeared and Motor arrived.

"Ah!" Ulrich said.

"It's Motor! The Electric Hero Motor has come to save us!" a bystander said as the students cheered.

"Take five, hotshots. Partys over!" Motor said.

"Wait, I;m not a..!" Blaziken said as Buckfire rammed into him again and slammed him into the wall.

"Dont leav your guard down." Buckfire said.

""Your audio chip is broken." motor said. "Lemme fix it! Electric surge!"

A surge of electricity hit the robot forcing it back.

"Yeah! Don't wanna mess with me." Motor said.

"Why you...Slash Dash!" Buckfire said pushing Motor back with just his horns.

Blaziken got up and countered Double WIllam. "Blaze Kick!" he shouted kicking the double into the wall. "I know you aren't a normal student. I have been trained to see aura and you don't have any."

"Blaziken!" Luffy said. "Hold it off long enough so we can fix this and launch RTTP!"

"Do not fear. I don't plan to let it exist for another second." Blaziken said.

Inside the armor.

"That… thing is gonna murder WIllam!" Sissi said.

"Focus, sissi. We gotta deal with things here, dont let personal stuff get in the way of the job." Rotom said.

"Begone lowly hero! Burning Arrow!" Buckfire shouted shooting three burning arrows.

"Charge Shield!" Motor said blocking them. "I wont let you destroy this school."

Back on Lyoko, the real William had been chased by crabs before Aelita intervened, thinking the program had worked, but..

"Good to see you again…" William said. "...Aelita." he said, his voice suddenly becoming distorted like a computers.

"Hes still possessed!" Peko said.

"The program didn't work." Jeremie said.

They didnt need to worry as Odd and Yumi arrived and immediately plugged in. Yumi distracted willam with her new Telekinetic abilities while Odd got Aleita out of harm's way as Yumi was left to battle William.

Back on the campus…

Motor and Blaziken continued to struggle against the William Double and Buckfire.

"For something with no life energy, it does respond well in combat.' Blaziken said.

"Is he right?" Sissi asked.

"Ive ran a scan of our willaim. Its not real, just a duplicate made of data." Rotom said.

"Wich means…" Sissi said phasing back to the armor view out side.

"I'm cleared to engage." the synthesized male voice of Motor said.

"What?" Buckfire said before Blaziken uppercutted it.

"Don't worry. You will fall to me this day." Blaziken said before his body ignited. "Blast...BURN!" he shouted letting loose a powerful fire that completely overcame Buckfire, incinerating and destroying him.

Motor charged up a ball of lighting.

"Jeremie, Motors about to put the lights out on the duplicate, and he'll have alot of questions when hes done. WHeres that Return to the past?" Ulrich asked.

"Ive just debugged Aelita's ID, shes heading in now." Jeremie said.

"Charge at max!" Rotom said.

"Thunder…!" Rotom said.

"Jeremie!" Luffy said.

"Return to the past…" Jeremie started.

"...Cannon!"

"...now!" Jeremie said hitting the enter key as everything slowed down and white light enveloped everything, even Motor whos armor didnt prepare him for the sudden burst.

Earlier…

"Im glad we got that outta the way in time." Fuyuhiko said. "Last thing we need is a hero like Motor investigating us."

"It would have been counterproductive towards our objectives of saving the real William." Peko said.

"And I guess you owe Blaziken another one, eh Yumi?" Odd asked.

"He saved me of his own choice. Nothing to it." Yumi said, unaware that Blaziken was watching her from the trees.

"I do have a reason. I've already told her my reason once. But while I am devoted to her, she has yet to trust me." Blaziken said about to leap off.

"We know youre there." Hope said only for Blaziken to ignore him and leap off. "The way you both are acting… is he trying to prove himself to be your Perfect Link?"

"Weird. He used that exact phrase when he broke into my room. He even gave me this thing." Yumi said holding a fan with a keystone in it.

"A keystone?" Twilight said.

"That means Blaziken already has his Blazikenite. He can mega evolve." Sunset said.

"One way to show a Perfect Link bond is through Mega Evolution. Weve all seen that. Remember Lucario? Blade had a keystone and Lucario Mega Evolved before our eyes." Luffy said.

"Yeah. That is true." Kirito said. "But Blaziken has to have his reasons for doing this."

"Face it. We don't know a thing about the guy. The only person that seems to know him better than us is Greninja, and he's who knows where." Chie said.

"Hmm…Maybe its time I asked some questions." Hope said. "To the ninja frog in person." he said getting up from the table.

"How are you even gonna bring him here?" Lucy asked.

"He's with Sasuke right? Odds are, with those time things, they're bound to wind up here by some fortune. All I gotta depend on is luck." Hope said.

"Hope youre right." Ulrich said.