"Jin! Prepare the Skidbladnir and the Undine with Aelita and Yumi!"

"Yessir!" Jin replied excitedly with a salute before he rushed towards the industrial elevator behind him. As soon as he entered, he punched the red button and waited anxiously as the doors slowly slid to a close, the golden lock hissing shut as the heavy metal wires hauled the metal box and the Japanese teen down towards the landing dock.

18-year-old Jin Ishiyama has been through many trials ever since a computer virus that was thought to be destroyed almost five years ago was revived from a back-up file that Jeremie had forgotten to overlook. The virus named XANA had escaped from the back-up server and travelled through the internet, accessing the American government's computers. From there, he possessed the current American President, demanding that they declare sudden war on France and its allies. As the French army falls slowly and painfully, Jin, his twin sister, Yumi, and their friends - 16-year-old Jeremie Belpois, Aelita Schaeffer, Odd Della Robbia and 17-year-old Ulrich Stern - banded together to create the Lyoko Warriors once more.

Jin heaved a breath as the elevator shook to a halt. The locks on the lower level's doors clicked and hissed and they were unlocked. The doors opened, releasing a cloud of steam as Jin walked out to be joined by his twin sister, Yumi and their pink-haired friend, Aelita at the dock.

"Tell me something, aniki." Yumi frowned, her black bob-cut fluttering in the winds from the cold ocean winds that blew in from the giant - now open - garage doors, revealing the Parisian landscape behind the two girls. "Do you still believe what Jeremie tells us?"

Jin shrugged. "Aelita's a human on Earth after being trapped in Lyoko for 10 years because of him. XANA was locked away because of Aelita with our help..." - Aelita gave Jin a stern glare - "...and of course, father. (Aelita's father, Waldo Schaeffer - who went under the alias of Franz Hopper for the remaining days of his life - appeared in the form of a ball of digital energy and gave enough energy force to power Jeremie's anti-virus to destroy XANA forever... or so they had hoped.) After all that we've been through, sis, I would be surprised if Jeremie was wrong."

Yumi sighed as she saw her "aniki" stand on one of the blue and white circled teleportation platforms, preparing to be teleported inside the Skidbladnir; a giant jellyfish-like aircraft that had four pods nestled in its metal tentacles, where the tentacles would depart to release the pods into small warcrafts called NavSkids. (The original Skidbladnir in Lyoko was a watercraft used to access the dangerous Digital Sea without being erased from existence, but Jeremie believed that creating it for the air would be more efficient to lead the Warriors' own war against XANA.) She walked onto the small, identical platform beside her brother with her arms crossed and a stern expression. "I really hope you're wrong, aniki." - Aelita joined the twins on the middle, larger platform - "Because if it's all true, then XANA has the advantage."

The three Warriors on the platforms were blinded by white light as they travelled within five seconds from the platform outside into their respective pods in the Skid - Aelita in the head, circular driver's pod, and Yumi and Jin in their own NavSkid pods - the rumbling waves of the Atlantic Ocean muffled by the tinted walls and windows of their pods. Jeremie's voice came over on the PA system, replying to the conversation that he overheard between the Ishiyama twins.

"I am right, Yumi. And we are dead even with XANA... now that we have our visitor."

"What, you mean this Ash guy?" Jin frowned. "I'm not so sure, Jer... I mean, he's from the First Dimension. Didn't you say that their world is so far apart from ours that they have nothing in common with us?"

"Your point?" Jeremie questioned.

"He would have trouble adjusting to our world, therefore, he might not be able to assist us like we would like him to." Aelita responded. "Jin has a point, Jeremie. What if he's not the one?"

"He was already chosen by legendaries to be a hero. He's saved the world more than once, you guys." Jeremie argued.

Aelita pressed several buttons and pulled on various levers, causing a series of metal connectors to shoot into the water, connecting onto a submarine-like blue transportation device with wings and square windows rather than the traditional circle windows of a submarine. "Where did you obtain this information, Jeremie?"

"From Jack." Jeremie replied. "He was there during one of them... Of course, he was only 10 at the time..."

"Who, Jack or Ash?" Jin asked.

"Ash." Yumi replied. "I heard about him, too." - her expression turned deadly serious - "He also has the Egg, Jeremie. How do we know if we can trust him?"

"He was used as a guinea pig without even knowing it, Yumi." Jeremie answered. "He doesn't even know what the heck that Egg does, other than the fact that when he turned on one of the switches, it caused a tear in the sky."

As the Skid slowly drove out of the landing dock, the sunlight filtered through the tinted windows. After a moment of being blinded by the giant ball of energy high in the sky, the three Warriors could see the fluttering tear in the clear blue sky.

"Well, you gotta admit, that's a fair amount of damage right there." Jin commented, partly light-heartedly.

"So, when is our visitor scheduled to drop in?" Yumi asked, half-jokingly.

"Anytime now." Jeremie replied. In the main computer room, the blond-haired teen added another channel and got connected with his two other friends. His reluctancy to ask his following question was easily shown in his tone of voice. "Ulrich, Odd.... is the tarp ready?"

"Yup, it's ready!" the purple-clad blonde-teen named Odd replied with a large, toothy grin.

The brown-haired teen that accompanied Odd sensed the embarrassment in his friend's voice. "Jeremie, do you want him to crack his head open when he lands?"

Jeremie growled in irritance. "What part of him being blessed by a divine creature did you not understand?!"

"You can never be too careful, Jeremie!" Odd grinned.

Before Jeremie could argue, the ground shook for a split second. Outside, after the short shake of the ground, the tear began to glow a bright multitude of colours, tinted with gold.

"He's here..." Jeremie announced.

The Warriors blinked away the yellow spots behind their eyes and gaze in amazement as a human-like figure began to fall from the glowing center. His fall from grace was more like a floating-down. He moved like a feather in a still summer breeze. A strange creature that resembled a yellow stuffy with pointed ears and a lightning-bolt-shaped tail and red spots on his cheeks was held in the figure's arms. Once the figure reached near the surface, landing with a small bounce on the tarp that two awe-struck teens were holding out, it was revealed that the figure was a teenaged boy with wild black hair, wearing a black shirt and grey capris with black and yellow fingerless gloves and yellow and red sneakers. The lights faded, returning the sky to normal. At that moment, the boy's eyes fluttered open, revealing bright brown eyes.

Ash blinked the blurriness out of his eyes, the blue sky and flutter tear focusing. The sky wasn't what surprised him, though, nor was the sudden change in the scent and atmosphere of the area he had just arrived in: it was the two boys - one who was clad with purple clothing with a cone-shaped hairdo with a splash of purple at the front, and the other with brown hair and dressed in a mixture of green and black with two katanas strapped to his belt - who were hovering over him, holding onto edges of a white tarp. Their eyes were wide with bewilderment.

"Well, whaddya know?" the purple teen grinned. "Jeremie was right!"

"I don't know, Odd..." the boy with the katanas replied, studying Ash with a critical eye. "He looks a bit scrawny to be a hero to me..."

Ash blinked, his disheveled mind taking a moment to rearrange itself. When the sentance finally processed into his mind, Ash shot up, yelling, offended, "Who you calling 'scrawny'?!"

In surprise, the two boys dropped the tarp, causing Ash to land on the concrete floor on his bottom, causing a shot of pain to rush up his spine. Ash yelped and fell onto his back, writhing in pain.

At that moment, a trap door that was a meter away from the three boys shot open, and a blonde-haired teen wearing a blue turtleneck tank top with beige khaki capris and runners burst out of the door. Ash's eyes widened when he saw the teen shoot out of the trapdoor, his glasses slipping down his nose.

"If you're going to use a tarp, guys, use it properly!" the teen snapped, pushing his glasses back up the bridge of his nose.

Ash shot up from his seat, forgetting about the pain, just as Pikachu woke up in his arms. "Wh-who are you?!"

"Huh?" the teen blinked, then smiled. "Oh, sorry. I forgot to introduce myself." - he held out his mechanical arm - "My name is Jeremie Belpois. I'm an acquaintance of Jack Walker and Dinah Anderson."

Just as Ash was about to make a comment, the ground shook again, this time, for a moment longer. The tear's light suddenly turned a murky black and violet, releasing wild jets of black light.

"We've got company!" the boy named Odd suddenly cried as he and his friend rushed towards the edge of the - what seemed to be - cement rooftop. Ash's heart skipped a beat when he saw that their fall was suddenly broken by a flying aircraft and submarine.

"Wh-what in the-?!" Ash stuttered.

"Pikapi!" Pikachu suddenly exclaimed, pointing at the sky. Ash followed his gaze and was shocked to see a red stylized eye glowing on the tear.

Ash held his breath as the boy named Jeremie rushed towards the edge of the roof, holding a walkie-talkie to his face while he was holding two purple and white poke'balls in his hand. "You know the plan, guys!"

Jeremie hooked his walkie-talkie onto his belt and enlargened the poke'balls in both hands. He threw them in the air, crying out, "Dialga! Palkia! Please, we need your help!"

Ash and Pikachu's eyes widened as two bursts of white light illuminated the sky, revealing the two legendary time and space Pokemon when they faded away. The poke'balls were caught by Jeremie's human and mechanical hands as the two divine creatures roared in the sky as they charged towards the dark light with the aircraft and submarine.

"Wh-what the hell is going on?!"